2004, Unordered

Well, since everybody’s doing it (making year-in-review lists, that is), being an adult child of a Virgo, I have a few lists of my own. Here are two of my lists for 2004. List 1: the top five people that got more than they deserved, be it power, money, credibility, whatever...these folks deserve less, not more. List 2: the top five people who got less than they deserved, in fact were marginalized by the mainstream press and (if I can say this with a straight face) were [mis]underestimated.

Pompous Asses:
These folks are too full of themselves.

• George W. Bush
• Antonin Scalia
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Mel Gibson
• Donald Rumsfeld

Unsung Heroes:
These people need us to show them a little more love.

• Michael Moore
• Martha Stewart
• Howard Dean
• Barbra Streisand
• Al Franken
  

I leave it as an exercise to the reader to figure out why I called them the way I did. (I don’t suppose it takes a rocket scientist to discern at least one obvious pattern.)

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Happy New Year to all.