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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Time Magazine Picks ME As Person Of The Year

No, really....it says so right there. It says YOU (and since I’m looking at it it I’m pretty sure they mean me) are the person of the year. If you don't believe me go to http://www.time.com/time/ and check it out. See? Told ya.

Wow. I’m honored. This is SO unexpected. I don’t even have an acceptance speech prepared. They didn’t even call me. They haven’t told me where I can go to get this award, either. What should I wear?  Also, just what is it? Is it like a trophy that I can put on a shelf in some completely obvious place so I can brag about it to anybody who will listen? Or is it money like they give out to whichever bumbling fool that wins the Nobel Peace Prize each year? I hope it’s money. Big greasy piles of cash. Sigh. I like money.

Of course, if you read Time magazine (or at least look at the cover which is all I’m likely to do with this completely bogus issue) you’ll think they meant YOU are the person of the year. Don’t kid yourself for one second, pal. I’m pretty darn sure they meant me.

I’m curious, though....what kind of morons are they employing at Time these days? It sure took some brain power to come up with this one. There are thousands out there who could have been picked. There’s uh, well, uh...how about the new leader of the U.N.? You know, what’s-his-face from Korea? And then there’s, uh...well, you get the picture.

This has the look of one of those decisions that are made in some meeting room by a higher placed executive and the rest of the meeting gives him a “Harumph” of concurrence and tell him how brilliant he is, how clever and innovative. They could have picked someone of consequence from the six-billion people on this planet, but, no, they picked me. I guess I’ll just have to live with that.

Harumph. Morons.

Comments

I went to your Time link and it says that I was named Person of the Year...sorry Pilgrim.


"There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people. There are truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; and truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn’t work.”

Irving Kristol

MikeAdamson on December 19, 2006 at 07:52 pm
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A friend of mine, Donnie Baseball, has much, much better idea of who ought to have been named Person of the Year.  His choice was Warren Buffett.

Giving $40 billion to charity is no small thing, and it is not just the number on the check. Buffett basically gave away everything, his entire life’s work for benefits that will be diffuse and hard to trace back to him. If his money cures some dread disease that afflicts the Third World or expands food production in nations that are currently starving, they won’t name the results after him. This was giving on an enormous scale, with total selflessness for the deepest human problems, but ‘You’ with your dorm room reprise of Flock of Seagulls’ “I ran” wowed the editors of Time.

Kinda puts Time’s banal choice of “You” in a whole new, pathetic light.

Bat One on December 19, 2006 at 08:07 pm

The sarcasm of my post aside, Bat, that is EXACTLY my point. Banal and pathetic are excellent terms to describe a poor, poor choice on the part of what is supposed to be a publication with a brain. Not.


The future ain’t what it used to be.....

Pilgrim on December 20, 2006 at 04:57 am
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Iraqi Citizens Celebrated The Death Of Zarqawi and so he gets my vote(posthumously)for (dead) man of the year.

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Joel on December 23, 2006 at 04:44 am
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