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Tuesday, December 19, 2006

I call BULLSHIT on this, Time


Since the 20s, Time Magazine has nominated a man or a person of
the year. It was a unique way to mark a moment in history. It
wasn't always a popular choice. It wasn't always a good guy.
But it was always someone.

This year, Time decided to piss all that integrity away in order to
make the kind of schmooze play I would have expected from a
shit-heel small town newspaper run by some Rotary Club fuck.
This year's person of the year is YOU. That's right. You, me, him,
her, that guy. All of us. Just folks. There's a big mirror on the cover
of the magazine and, man, it has all the class of a carnival prize.

But instead of trying to blow up a balloon by shooting a water pistol
into a clown's mouth to win this novelty item, you can just buy it for
few bucks at the newsstand. I have no doubt that this will be one of
the best-selling issues of Time ever. Fuck the issue with Hitler on
the cover, even hayseeds who've never heard of Time let alone read
it will be buying these up to hang them on their walls this Christmas
season. What a joke.

In a world with this much shit going on in it, Time really should have
picked a newsmaker. How about Kim Jung Il? Or Saddam Hussein?
Even if they wanted to make a statement about the common man, they
could have put The Blogosphere on the cover at least it would have
been a statement of some kind.

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