So, Who Should Have Been Person of the Year? (TIME magazine cover)--and Who Cares?

TIME magazine has been running what was originally basically it's "Man of the Year" award since 1927, when it started with aviator Charles Lindbergh because they had left him off the cover that year and a lot of people were upset by that.

It was always pretty much a "Man" of the year ( somehow Madame Tsiang-Kai-Shek made it as Woman of the Year in 1937, but she was an outlier).

It wasn't until 1999 that TIME caved in to the demands for the politically correct "PERSON of the year."

Every American President was Man (or Person ) of the year after 1927, except for Gen. Eisenhower, who had already been done during World War II.

TIME has also done "category" awards, including its notorious "YOU" as Person of the Year (2006). ( I was not surprised to pick up on that-- yes, they meant me-- I always knew it was all about me.)

Anyway, Who the Person of the Year is, IMHO, matters not a hoot ( it is less important than what happens in Wilmette, IL, actually) --it is just more tinsel-type publicity.

Well, it just shows that people begrudge anybody any claim to fame. ( Just look at the fate of the Nobel Prize winning discoverer of DNA). Ah well, just remember they ran Hitler once and Stalin twice.

Here are some more of those covers: