Person Of The Year
Time Magazine asked some famous folks about who they thought was person of the year. NBC Anchor Brian Williams had a pretty good one but I have to give props to Stephen King. I like the fact that he’s becoming a bit of a curmudgeon with really good hair.
He said this:
Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan symbolize the media’s growing obsession with issues of personality over substance. People care more about the details of Spears’ child-custody case than they do about where the billions the U.S. government has poured into Iraq have gone. It’s time for a discussion about whether the news media have chucked their responsibilities and run off to Tabloid Disneyland.
Of course, Squirrel Queen said it was her as I began writing this post.
My vote is for Dick Cheney’s cardiologist. How he ever found a heart underneath all that is an act not of a doctor, but a miracle worker.
Just saying with a bit of snark on this fine Tuesday morning.
I vote for ‘coma and SQ as co-Persons of the Year. They are fine, upstanding, morally centered, truth-telling, U.S. media practitioners who retain an excellent perspective on the REAL absurdities of life and report accordingly.
Plus, they’re cute, and they’re kind to animals of all persuasions. Cast your ballots now!
P.S. — We have long said that my mean evil paternal grandfather lived as long as he did because Heaven didn’t want him and Hell was afraid he’d take over. Dick Cheney’s continuing existence on this planet is clear proof that Heaven’s terrified of him and Hell is afraid he’ll outsource everything, including the brimstone.
(We got a lot of giggles the other night singing, “You’re a mean one, Mister Dick,” in Boris Karloff voices, instead of the real Grinch words during the cartoon. We got kinda ugly with the “stink stank stunk” part, though. It was all the same word. Whoops!)
Person of the year?
Hugo Chavez.
He proved that George Bush is the better dictator because obviously, Venezuela DOESN’T have vote fraud.