Right on, ‘Time’

Let me begin this morning with the seemingly strange choice for Time’s Persons of the Year. (I always hate the word “Persons.” Wouldn’t “People” be better? Or would that be bad because there’s a magazine called People? Wait, where am I?)

Okay, back to the point: Time’s Persons of the Year are Bill and Melinda Gates and Bono. At first, I simply thought: Well, obviously Bill Gates and his wife are always a good choice, since they plan on giving all their money away. (See, sometimes Microsoft isn’t quite the most evil corporation on the planet.) And, you know, Bono is always cool. But were they the people who influenced the news the most?

I thought about it some more, though, and I think I figured it out. Bill & Melinda: Okay, it’s going to give more publicity to their causes, so I’m down. Plus, hey, it’s nice to see the nerds continue to get revenge.

And Bono? Well, Bono helped put on Live 8. Even though he wasn’t at the Philadelphia concert, remember what happened there? There was a big event in Philly with hundreds of thousands of people and everything pretty much went off without a hitch. In Philadelphia! We can barely put on, say, a Christmas tree lighting ceremony without everyone embarassing themselves. Helping do something like a successful event in Philly doesn’t just deserve Time’s Person of the Year, it deserves the Nobel Peace Prize

Time names Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates Persons of Year [CNN.com]