Time Magazine named Bill Gates “Person of the Year” last month, adding the convicted monolopolist to a long list of genocidal maniacs, torturers, and other role models.

Gates, who has done immeasurable harm to the technological progress by thwarting competitors and innovation at every turn, was a “fresh and interesting” choice, according to Time Managing Editor James Kelly¹

Other fresh choices have included

• Adolf Hitler (1938, murderer of six million Jews)
• Joseph Stalin (1939 and 1942, responsible for tens of millions of Soviet deaths)
• Ayatollah Khomeini (1979, Iranian dictator who extensively outlawed civil rights)
• George W. Bush (1990, 2000, and 2004, lied to U.S. to justify illegal invasion of Iraq)
• Faisal bin Abdelaziz Al Saud (1974, Fascist Monarch who increased Saudi Arabia’s military)

Time is already excited about the possibilities for the 2006 person of the year. Candidates include Osama bin Laden, “The Humble Terrorist,” The Grim Reaper, Satan, and Nuclear Weapons.