My Latest Pick-Up Line
"Hey, baby, let me introduce you to Time magazine's Person of the Year!"
Time just marginalized the decades it has spent building up journalistic integrity with its coronation of "you" as 2006's Person of the Year. The term "copout" is not nearly forceful enough to describe the creative malpractice Time's editors have humiliated themselves with. I know it's a couple of weeks early for New Year's predictions, but I'll nonetheless go out on a limb and project that at least some of the chuckleheads responsible for this travesty of an annual tradition will not be employed at Time magazine to determine who 2007's Person of the Year is. At least I hope some heads roll for this cheesy attempt to suck up to all of us.
"You're all winners!!!!!" What a frickin' joke.
Time just marginalized the decades it has spent building up journalistic integrity with its coronation of "you" as 2006's Person of the Year. The term "copout" is not nearly forceful enough to describe the creative malpractice Time's editors have humiliated themselves with. I know it's a couple of weeks early for New Year's predictions, but I'll nonetheless go out on a limb and project that at least some of the chuckleheads responsible for this travesty of an annual tradition will not be employed at Time magazine to determine who 2007's Person of the Year is. At least I hope some heads roll for this cheesy attempt to suck up to all of us.
"You're all winners!!!!!" What a frickin' joke.
posted by Mark at 9:00 PM
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Some people over at Calitics (a California-ized Daily Kos) replaced the blank computer screen with a "Calitics" logo, presumably as a joke. So at least we can spend the next year making fun of Time for this.
So it really is all about me. I mean, us.
Rhea
The Boomer Chronicles
Here's a quick comment before I leave. Tomorrow I'll be traveling with my boyfriend and his family to visit their relatives in Hot Springs Arkansas for Christmas and Pennsylvania for New Year's. I'll be sure to thank my boyfriend's cousin, aunt, and CEO uncle in Pittsburgh for voting Casey and Rendell this year. ;)
My California friends and I are already looking ahead to 2010 (with of course plenty of focus on 2008) since that is when we have all our statewide offices and a Senate seat up again. With Arnold term-limited, the governor's race will likely be Democrat-favored. Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is the only Republican that could win; the Republicans have virtually no bench here. We have a whole slew of strong candidates, including L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, S.F. Mayor Gavin Newsom, Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, LG primary runner-up Jackie Speier, LG John Garamendi, School Superintendent Jack O'Connell, and AG-turned-Treasurer Bill Lockyer. I also heard Angelides and Westly may run again; it is very unlikely I will support either this time around. I am leaning towards Villaraigosa at the moment.
On the Senate front, Boxer may retire. Arnold unfortunately is an immediate favorite on the GOP side while we have a whole bunch of contenders for the Dems. One commenter noted that he wanted Villaraigosa and Newsom to succeed Boxer and DiFi (who will be almost 80 and likely retire in 2012). We will have an interesting 2009-2013.
sara, enjoy your trip to Arkansas and Pennsylvania. If he's from Brazil, why does he have relatives in AR and PA? Just curious.
His aunt and uncle that live in Pennsylvania are also from Brazil, but moved here and had three kids in this country, and became naturalized citizens (which my boyfriend will do later this month).
His Arkansas relatives come from his stepdad, who is from Arkansas.
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