TIME Has the Last Word Again

So I don't want this to be my cathartic/enlightening/mind-blowing post, considering it is a link to a list not comprised by myself, but I found it fascinating none the less and wanted to share with the kind readers. That's you. And the friend you will potentially/hopefully share this blog with.

Go on, share. It's the season.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1944256,00.html

I didn't read any of the other lists, but the new species one was qualified enough to merit a post, so if I were to make a top 10 list of TIME's top 10 lists, it'd be up there. TIME can be pretty shakey, but they came through on this one. Federal Reserve honcho Ben Bernanke was just named Person of the Year, beating out Usain Bolt and "The Chinese Worker". Obama won it last year -- and rightfully so -- but so has almost every president we've had since the award came about (exceptions include Coolidge, Ford, and Hoover; talk about people in the wrong place at the wrong time). Nixon brought home the prize back in '71 and '72. One and a half times. He split it with Kissinger the second time around, so count that as you will.

I didn't even know this one, but evil of all evils that he was, Adolf fucking Hitler won it in 1938, followed by none other than Joseph Stalin in 1939, with a repeat in 1942. Good god.

On a lighter note, Planet Earth won in '88 - Good thing they don't give out medals for this.

As for the color thing, I watched Bleu yesterday. I will probably watch Blanc soon.