Nihilist in Golf Pants Person Of The Year For 2006: The Sun

It’s big and hot and yellow and it’s responsible for all life on Earth and now, once again, it is the Nihilist in Golf Pants Person of the Year. It is the Sun. The Sun started out four and half billion years ago as several million tons of hydrogen. Over the years it has converted about a fourth of that to helium and in the process provided heat and light for not just Earth, but the entire solar system.

Some may criticize our decision to name the Sun our person of the year for the thirty-eighth time in forty years and others may nitpick that the Sun is not actually a person. This award is meant to encourage and not end the debate. But only a moron would fail to recognize that without the Sun and its life-giving nuclear fusion, there would be no people on Earth whatsoever.

Americans flock to beaches to sit out in the Sun. They whine when it is hidden behind clouds. They breathe the oxygen it helps to produce via photosynthesis. America is in love with the Sun and so are we here at Nihilist in Golf Pants, and that is why we name the Sun our person of the year for 2006.

Previous NIGP Persons of the Year:
2005: The Sun
2004: The Sun
2003: The Sun
2002: Grant Potulny
2001: The Sun
2000: The Sun
1999: The Sun
1998: The Sun
1997: The Sun
1996: The Sun
1995: The Sun
1994: The Sun
1993: The Sun
1992: The Sun
1991: The Sun
1990: The Sun
1989: The Sun
1988: The Sun
1987: The Sun
1986: The Sun
1985: The Sun
1984: The Sun
1983: The Sun
1982: The Sun
1981: The Sun
1980: The Sun
1979: Killer Swampee
1978: The Sun
1977: The Sun
1976: The Sun
1975: The Sun
1974: The Sun
1973: The Sun
1972: The Sun
1971: The Sun
1970: The Sun
1969: The Sun
1968: The Sun
1967: The Sun