Today’s post is a follow-up to our story from March 4, 2008. In that post, we reported on the retirement of Nepal’s Living Goddess (she was 11).  Apparently, the career of a living deity is pretty brief in Nepal (think dog years).

So today, the government declared a new Living Goddess. The new Maoist government sidestepped 239 years of silly -err I mean serious tradition by naming the Kumari instead of letting the high priest of the monarchy do it. Government apologists might argue that there technically is no monarchy anymore, but I think that’s splitting hairs. I think it’s a dangerous thing when the government gets to choose the goddess. Just think if that happened in America?  During the Clinton administration, we might have had Barbara Streisand as our goddess! That just wouldn’t have been good for ANYBODY!

I think my choice of American Goddess would depend on the decade. In the eighties, I would have voted for Martha Quinn. In the 90′s, probably Heidi Klum or Sandra Bullock. Early part of this decade, Scarlett Johansson. Now that I’m 40, it’s back to Martha Quinn!

Carry on, Citizens!  (and L’Shana Tova!)