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Who will be Time's Person of the Year ?

Last year it was Vladimir Putin. I'll bet you £3 this year it will be Barack Obama.

Here's a few names on their short list:

Obama
McCain
G W Bush
Hillary Clinton
Sarah Palin
Tina Fey (!)
Olympians like Phelps and Bolt
Ahmadinejad
Damien Hirst (!)
Gordon Brown (!)
Bernanke, Paulson
Mugabe
Chinese people called Hu and Wen ( Read more... )

So anyway, it's hard to explain, but I'm a bit obsessed with making lists and personal Halls of Fame... so here's another one  that I've been quietly adding to in the background over the past couple months.

( nonsensical strangeness )

The Livejournal people just recently made the mistake of suspending some journals that had listed as an "interest" in their profile things such as "pedophilia" or "child rape".  This was apparently due to pressure from a child protection group.  They were wrong to do this because some people had those things in their "interests" not because they ( Read more... )

from Time.com

"I noticed [Tinky Winky] has a lady's purse, but I didn't realize he's a boy."

- EWA SOWINSKA, Poland's government-appointed children rights watchdog, who will investigate if Teletubbies are homosexual propaganda

"Most of us don't know what we're fighting for anymore. We're serving our country and friends, but the only reason we go ( Read more... )

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Snippets from the Washington Times:

Chavez calls Bush 'devil' at U.N.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez yesterday used his annual address to the United Nations to call President Bush "the devil himself" and "world dictator," topping the rhetorical blast of his Iranian counterpart the previous day.

Echoing Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ( Read more... )

From the Taipei Times:

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez praised his Iranian counterpart, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, for standing up to Washington and demanded that the US destroy its own nuclear arsenal instead of harassing Iran over what he claims is a peaceful nuclear energy initiative.

Ahmadinejad met with Chavez as both were preparing to travel to New ( Read more... )

SEYMOUR M. HERSH article from the New Yorker:

snippets:

The Bush Administration, while publicly advocating diplomacy in order to stop Iran from pursuing a nuclear weapon, has increased clandestine activities inside Iran and intensified planning for a possible major air attack. Current and former American military and intelligence officials ( Read more... )