The Time Person of the Year is. ...

Yes. Snowden should have been the choice.

 

I don't know. The guy is the leader of the biggest church on the planet, following an extraordinary resignation that the world hadn't seen in more than a thousand years, and he has modernized the church tremendously in a very brief time. That's pretty significant.

Think Ragu's reflecting what the "media elite" of New York believed was going to be the pick. I saw a tweet last weekend predicting it, a tweet that purported to be from those inner circles.

 

How, exactly? He's certainly much better at PR than his predecessor, but how much has the Catholic Church moved on substantive issues during his tenure?
http://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2013/12/11/seriously-time-magazine/
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2013/12/11/pope-francis-named-times-person-of-the-year-despite-not-changing-the-direction-of-the-church/

It's OK, though. I'm sure Bill Donohue will be along shortly to tell us all what the award actually means.

 

He has discussed a much broader acceptance of women in the church and of his understanding that homosexuality is not a disorder and not a disqualifier from a religious life. He has fought the church's decadence and opulence, by rejecting it himself and by kicking out the German bishop. Washing the feet of the two young women was a move that showed a lot of heart and, yes, PR savvy.

Those ideas may not be revolutionary to the forward-thinking world, but they are really shaking things up in the Catholic Church.

 

Ted Cruz is Idiot of the Year.

 

If only Ted Cruz were as smart as Mark2010.

Where did he go to college, anyway? What's that guy's background? He must be known the world over for his lack of intelligence.

 

He wasn't named MENSA's Person of the Year, idiot of the year is a qualification to be on the cover of Time.

 

My favorite selection was probably 1955.

Sure, Salk introduced polio vaccine. But Harlow Curtice -- head of GM -- took Time's Person of the Year.

 

as goes GM...

 

Cruz received a bachelor's degree from Princeton University and a law degree from Harvard University, where he was the primary editor of the Law Review and founding editor of the Latino Law Review.

Geez, what a dumbass.

 

So he must be right about Obamacare, immigration and taxation?

 

Didn't say that. But the guy isn't dumb.