ON THE EXTREME ENDS OF INFLUENCE
Time's Most Influential Caricatures
The latest edition of Time Magazine features their second annual list of "The 100 Most Influential People in the World Now."
The list includes a wide assortment of people like Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, ex-convict Martha Stewart, the BlackBerry inventors, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, actress Hilary Swank, Senator Barack Obama (already?), fashion designer Miuccia Prada, CEO J-Hova a.k.a. Jigga-man, News Corp. tycoon Rupert Murdoch, baller LeBron James, Ukranian President Victor Yushchenko, Secretary of Evil Donald Rumsfeld, and Satan hereself: Ann Coulter, among others.
As interesting as their list may be, I don't find it nearly as thoughtful and engaging as ...
The 100 Least Influential People in the World Now
Among the honorees:
- President Gerald Ford
- John Oates, of r&b duo Hall & Oates, who claps in "Private Eyes"
- Gail Halladay, Product Publicist for the Mormon Tabernacle
- Actor Clint Howard
- William Powell Lear, inventor of the 8-Track
- Molly Clay, editor of SexyFandom.com, an adult Trekkie site
- Gangsta rapper Skee-Lo
- Procrastinators' Club of America, distributor of Last Month's Newsletter
- Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice
- "Baby Jessica," young adult (no longer a baby) and no longer stuck in a well
- Michael Frost Breckner & James Gorman, script writers for Cutthroat Island
- Lumidee, singer
- Larry Elppin, Wal-Mart greeter in Malden, Missouri:
- Bunny D. and Lady Tigra, lead vocalists of L'Trimm
- John Wayne Bobbitt, adult film star
- Rick Dees, radio host & comedian
- Arthur David Macias, nude knife-wielding messenger for the anti-Christ
- Daisy Fuentes, model
- Fred Durst, vocalist
- Paulette McWilliams, Firefox on Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo
- Billy Bush, correspondent
- Nikko Smith, American Idol two-time reject
- Harry Snyder, former Director of the Office of Surface Mining, Dept. of Interior
- Pete Best, fifth Beatle
- Marc Price, Skippy on Family Ties
- Roger Ross, 'Animal Pet Doctor,' author of "Dog's [sic] with Diarrhea"
- My aunt, Kimiko Butaniku :
- Aaron Brown, news anchor
- Layzie Bone of Bone Thugs 'n Harmony
- Joan Lunden, former talk show host
- Bradford L. Brooks, inventor of the laser pointer
- Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
- Kevin Costner, actor
- Leslee J. Unruh, Founder and President, Abstinence Clearinghouse
- Me
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