Weird World

So while I’m trying to decide what to do for lunch today, I might as well make a commentary on something in today’s newspaper:

Bush, bin Laden on Time list
UNITED STATES: President George W. Bush, the world’s most wanted man Osama bin Laden, rapper Eminem and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein are all on the “short list” for Time Magazine’s 2002 Person of the year.
   Time Magazine revealed yesterday its list for the coveted title, the first time in the honour’s 75-year history that the weekly news magazine has opened a window on the nominating process for the “person who most affected the news or our lives, for good or ill, this year.”
   The list also includes (in no order): Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Vice-President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Bush’s national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell, FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, Palestinian suicide bomers, home decorating doyenne Martha Stewart, corporate crooks, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, and Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan.

A couple of thoughts come to mind:
1. I never thought I would be “rooting” for Eminem.
2. Which one, if any, of these people “affected the news or our lives, for good”?
3. What were the people at Time Magazine smoking when they put this list together, and where can I get some?
4. Most importantly, What am I going to have for lunch today?!?!