Rizgar Amin, the Kurdish judge in the Saddam Huessein trial, is my hero this week for at least trying to keep some semblance of order in his circus court. Saddam keeps pulling antics, like accusing the United States of tourture, and retorting laughter from the crowd:
To derisive laughter from the public gallery, Saddam drew himself up and said: "Let the monkeys laugh in their trees. The lion ignores them."


TIME magazine is my hack this week for their horrible chocies for "People of the Year."
"The Good Samaritans," eh? Besides my computer nerd-esque dislike of Bill Gates, it is really the choice of Bono that irks me. I won at least two U2 albums, so it isn't like I generally dislike the guy, just that I don't think that was the biggest newsmaker this year. TIME has chosen groups of people before, and I think this will pale in comparison to other movers and shakers of 2005. Why not even give it to Mother Nature, whose earthquakes and hurricanes made many headlines?

In any case, next week, I will be doing Hero and Hack of the Year, so you can lambast me for my picks as well.


Hero/Hack appears every Friday at Jokers to the Right.

Posted by Ryan S. on Friday, December 23, 2005 at 12:01 AM | Permalink |