TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year issue was recently published, and once again, I didn’t make the list. TIME started doing this back in 1927 by naming Charles Lindbergh as Person of the Year. Yeah, I can see with all his accomplishments, specifically his solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean, that he was newsworthy. What’s more amazing is the fact that he didn’t have to pay extra for his luggage. Other praiseworthy people have made TIME’s list like Gandhi, John Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. Franklin D. Roosevelt was named Person of the Year three times.
There have been a few less honorable folks who made the list due to their notorious exploits, like Hitler, Stalin and Ayatollah Khomeini. Apparently TIME picks folks who changed the world for better or worse in a given year, but the list for 2015 baffles me a bit. There are a few nominees for Person of the Year who might deserve the title, but I don’t know why Donald Trump made the short list. He hasn’t done anything but blather and boast in front of a microphone. He might deserve a Grammy nomination for best comedy album, but he’s no Ronald Reagan, Winston Churchill or Queen Elizabeth.
But if you really want to know which Person of the Year nominee has peppered my chili is Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, the decathlon gold medalist who apparently didn’t quite clear every hurdle in the Montreal Olympics, knocking his dangly-bits off onto the track up there in Canada. How else can you explain the difference in appearance from his image on a box of Wheaties back in 1976 and more recently on the cover of Vanity Fair?
