The Sideshow blog's preferred choice for
Time's Person of the Year, instead of
y'all, would be
Atrios — to represent the political sea change that netroots helped bring about this year.
Not a bad idea, though I'm a
Digby man, myself.
As noted by
Blue Gal in
comments at
C&L, the choice of "You" / Web 2.0 might well have been a "centrist" watering down of the reality that Sideshow's Avedon Carol highlights.
Another way to celebrate the new American spirit of independence would have been to cite four brave souls who stood up to the Bush administration
in person:
Wouldn't it be great to see those four heroes' smiling faces on the cover?
Actually, it should be five.
Cindy Sheehan started it all the year before, and she should be there to preside over the new recruits.
What a statement that cover would make about a country founded on revolution and democracy — you'd almost get the idea that free speech was patriotic.
Look,
mylar's nice and all. But even better is
brass.
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