Tag Archives: Time Magazine

“If I’m bothered by jokes about my weight, it’s time for me to curl up into a fetal position and go home, okay? If they think that’s clever, great for them! They run the magazine, they get to make the decisions. The way people in New Jersey look at this: their governor’s been on the cover of TIME Magazine twice …

TIME Magazine’s new cover is blowing up Twitter today. Via Mediaite: Next to a shadowy profile of newly-reelected New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, the cover reads, “The Elephant in the Room,” a triple pun on Christie’s party, his uncomfortable status within it, and, most troubling to the tweepsters, his weight. Despite Christie’s party affiliation, the cover drew much of its …

The Tea People are furious. Good.

Rubio will be delivering the Republican response to this year’s State Of The Union Address and some wingnuts are very unhappy that he’ll be speaking in both English and Spanish. The decision to name Rubio — the son of Cuban immigrants — to respond to Obama’s address comes as the GOP seeks to broaden its base with Hispanics. The GOP …

President Obama has been named TIME Magazine’s Person Of 2012. The selection was announced Wednesday on NBC’s “Today” show. The short list for the honor included Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who was shot in the head for advocating for girls’ education. It also included Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and Bill and Hillary Clinton. Obama also received the honor in …

In addition to the people pictured above, among this year’s suggested names are Sheldon Adelson, Mitt Romney, Karl Rove, Joe Biden, Michael Bloomberg, Sandra Fluke, and Chris Christie.  Last year’s TIME Person Of The Year was “the protester.”  Polling results so far are here.

Buzzfeed’s Jessica Testa reports: “TIME magazine released the photos Thursday morning— hours before Ryan’s debate with Joe Biden in Danville, Kentucky. The photo shoot happened last year, when Ryan was a runner-up for the magazine’s Person of the Year. The macho poses are, of course, a reference to Ryan’s affinity for P90X.” UPDATE: And the photoshopping has begun!

Despite our best freeping, Cardinal Timothy Dolan made this dumbass popularity contest. Above is only a portion of the list. Here’s the full thing.

TIME Magazine wants to know if Cardinal Timothy Dolan should be on their 2012 TIME 100 list. As with their Person Of The Year, making the list doesn’t necessarily mean you are a good person, as also nominated is Kim Jong Un. Cast your votes for the leaders, artists, innovators, icons and heroes that you think are the most influential …

That covers Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and Europe’s widespread austerity riots. The stories start here.

Who should be named TIME’s 2011 Person Of The Year? Many are lobbying for Steve Jobs, but the magazine historically only names living persons. (Which also lets out a certain terrorist.)

So says a study cited by TIME Magazine. Men do things worse, apparently, because they have a penis. What’s the problem with men? “There’s been a lot of academic research suggesting that men think they know what they’re doing, even when they really don’t know what they’re doing,” John Ameriks, the author of the Vanguard study, told the New York …

“I held my composure as I stood in the back of a small but crowded room with standing room only. The formal briefing was a slightly awkward attempt at a conversation between one of my superior officers and the 40 or so of us squeezed in that room. He was clearly not used to talking about the topic of homosexuality …

The two runners-up were WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and the Tea Party. TIME says about Zuckerberg: At 26, Zuckerberg is a year older than our first Person of the Year, Charles Lindbergh — another young man who used technology to bridge continents. He is the same age as Queen Elizabeth when she was Person of the Year, for 1952. But …