They did what?! 2005's Top "Wtf?!" Moments

[Barb]

10. “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” Kanye West articulated what many emotionally vulnerable people were thinking, which was brave of him. But the fact that an opportunistic MC—and not a very good MC at that—is the moral compass for a rhetorically impotent media is extremely disturbing.
9. Celebrity couplings/breakups. TomKat. Brangelina. Bennifer II. Vaughniston. Spare me.
8. Tom Cruise. ‘Nuff said.
7. The political histrionics (which involved an emergency session of Congress) that swirled around the Terri Schiavo case.
6. Kate Moss lost some of her endorsement contracts with Roberto Cavalli and Chanel after a British tabloid published pics of her allergedly snorting cocaine. Were they worried that she wouldn’t get her vacant stare back after a stint in rehab?
5. Michael Jackson moves to Bahrain. As if there isn’t enough trouble in the Middle East.
4. Pat Robertson, National Security Advisor. [Quote: “If Hugh Chavez thinks we’re trying to assassinate him, I think we really ought to go ahead and do it. It’s a whole lot cheaper than starting a war.”]
3. A hurricane season that just won’t end.
2. Britney Spears had a baby.
1. “I got it at Nordstrom’s. Are you proud of me? Can I quit now? Can I go home?” –email from former FEMA director Michael Brown in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Images of President Bush playing a guitar following the complete devastation of New Orleans earned him comparisons to Roman emperor Nero, who fiddled while Rome burned.

 

[Alabaster.j.cat]

2. Britney Spears had a baby.

More "wft!" than her actually having a baby, she gave it a normal name!

 

[Strawberry Delcatty]

I'm surprised that you didn't mention Sega hiring 4Kids VAs to do voicework for the Sonic games starting from Shadow the Hedgehog.

 

[The Big Al]

The typical peak of the American tornado season past without one death for the first time in nearly fifty years but made up for lost time in NOVEMBER.

New Orleans was actually flooded by TWO Hurricanes less than a month apart.

It was the hottest year in recent memory (possibly the hottest in recorded history).

 

[Barb]

I'm surprised that you didn't mention Sega hiring 4Kids VAs to do voicework for the Sonic games starting from Shadow the Hedgehog.

My list is only representative of what *I* thought were noteworthy national and international events. I'm not much of a Sega fangirl (or any other game manufacturer, for that matter), and was totally unaware that they'd hired 4Kids VAs.

 

[Strawberry Delcatty]

My list is only representative of what *I* thought were noteworthy national and international events. I'm not much of a Sega fangirl (or any other game manufacturer, for that matter), and was totally unaware that they'd hired 4Kids VAs.

It's okay. I'm not upset about it. Everyone has their opinions, I guess.

 

[Nekusagi]

One word:
Bashou.