And your 2009 Time Person of the Year is....

Ben Bernanke

http://www.time.com/time/specials/poylist/0,32517,1946375,00.html

 

I would have gone with Jeter.

 

No love for Tiger? Geez...

 

I gather Time's marketing department isn't involved in the POY.

Another whiff from Time.

 

Better than You.

 

Me. Me? or "You", You?

Sadly, I think "You" might have been a bit late, but hit the nail on the head when it showed that people now "choose their own news" rather than depend on a wholesaler.

 

Can you imagine if they'd gone with their second runner-up, "The Chinese Worker"? WTF?

 

Jesus, really? Was Lieberman their runner up?

 

As asinine as this is going to sound, two of their people who mattered, the Gosselins, should have been given stronger consideration (I guess if not for the economy in the toilet). They're the zenith of the whole reality-TV, everyone's-a-star culture we have, the one where instead of running into hiding, every woman who claims she's slept with Tiger Woods comes OUT of hiding to strike a reality deal (although the one who was on Tool Academy is way ahead on that). They're endemic of how even on a smaller scale, people's desire to post everything about their lives online means that we have gone from seeking privacy to eschewing it.

 

The Mistress would have been a good one. It's been a while since Time honored a woman. Check out The Daily Beast's "Mistress Quiz" if you doubt that infidelity was big in 2009.

 

To say the Gosselin story was the zenith would indicate the current cultural trend will be in decline now.
I don't think that's the case.

 

Sully, end of thread. Underscores the very best of what we are and what we can be when it really matters.

He "saved or created" 155 lives.

He said this: "(F)or 42 years, I've been making small, regular deposits in this bank of experience: education and training. And on January 15 the balance was sufficient so that I could make a very large withdrawal."

Shame on Time for not selecting him.