the weeping boy

"What weeping face is that looking from the window?
Why does it stream those sorrowful tears?
Is it for some burial place, vast and dry?
Is it to wet the soil of graves?"
--Walt Whitman


It's amazing. It's surreal. As if once wasn't enough. Like a movie-- just when you thought it wouldn't get worse, it suddenly does. I felt brought low when I first read this on the BBC news site. I imagined some huge panel being bought off with oil money, I thought, "How could someone conscientiously actually vote for this man to be man of the year?" I mean seriously folk whichever side of the line you stand on--MAN OF THE YEAR? That means that he stands in line with Martin Luther King! I was depressed. Could we still be so blind STILL? The "War" in Iraq stands at an all time low, yet this bungler still preaches that things are great. His staff has had a HUGE turnover, unprecedented in wartime for a secondterm president, and yet people insist on acting as if this is all business as usual, which only serves to make it just that.

Yes folks I was deeply saddened. Then I read what the line of award recipients really included... and then I laughed. Here's to the magazines ability to pick out the winners and great leaders of the past century!



Previous "Time" magazine "People of the Year" recipients include:

1938 - Mr. Adolf Hitler (this is one year before the start of WW II in Europe-Sept, 1939)

1939 and 1942 - Mr. Joseph Stalin (before he acquired Poland, Chechoslovakia, Hungary Romania and Bulgaria murdering millions; and encouraged Kim II to invade South Korea)

1979 - Mr. Ayotollah Khonmeini (published mere months before he declared the US to be a "Great Satan.")

1985 -Deng Xiaoping (three years before the massacre in Tianamen Square, helped create the Red Army)