Thursday, May 10, 2007

Man of the Month...

Author's note: The man of the month (MoM) award is handed out to an in-duh-vidual who, through acts of incredible and mind-numbing stupidity, has managed to "shock and awe" us... in other words, managed to both amuse and amaze us. Gender equality campaigners, Women's rights organizations and the like, please take note: The MoM award is gender agnostic and the word "man" in the award title is purely incidental...

This month's MoM award goes to... (wait for it)... (wait for it)... Mr. Paul "The Wolf" Wolfozitz. If you're hearing this name for the first time, please contact me so I can include your name in the short-list for next month's MoM award. I know most of you were expecting to hear me announce the all-time leading MoM award winner and MoM hall of fame inductee, George "Dubya" Bush to win the award this time around too. And to be fair to GWB, he did put up a very strong case, but the Wolf, by sheer dint of stupidity left Dubya trailing in his wake. Way to go Wolf....

Now for a bit of explanation on how exactly the Wolf got around to winning the award... The Wolf was instrumental in getting the US involved in Iraq and so, to an extent, is responsible for all the aggravation that has followed since. But we don't even need to go that far back to get to the actions that won him the MoM award...

In January 2005, the Wolf was nominated to the position of President of the World Bank by none other than apna Dubya. The WB is a complex body governed by a set of convoluted and byzantine rules. The US is a majority stake holder in the bank and has had the privilege of nominating the president of the bank since its creation. The Wolf, never one to shy away from straight-shooting, announced grandiosely that he would make fighting the corruption and bureaucracy endemic to the organization his priority. So far so good.... Many months pass and the Wolf is busy ruffling feathers in his "War on Corruption" when suddenly, and quite out of the blue, it emerges that the Wolf had used his position as the president of the World Bank to authorize promotions and generous pay hikes to his girl-friend!! What the... It's one thing for you and I (grass root level ignoramuses) to show favoritism but for the president of the World Bank to do some like that !!! What was the man smoking, I wonder... and all this after he had declared a very public war on corruption. Talk about putting one's foot in his mouth!!! Wolf, take a bow dude, you truly deserve the award...

So, there you have it.. The whole story behind the Wolf's winning this month's MoM award. The Wolf beat several deserving candidates to the award. The illustrious short-list includes multi-MoM winner Dubya, serial-nominee Paris Hilton, Dr. Robert Mugabe, the Indian cricket team and Thomas Uva. Well, nominations for next month's MoM are now open. So, send in your nominations today and win exciting prizes!!! until later... cheers... 8-)