TIME's Odd Choice for "Person of the Year"

Mark Zuckerberg?  Aren't they a little behind the trend on that one?  Facebook is not exactly a 2010 invention.  I've been on it for 3 1/2 years.  Jim Geraghty has some thoughts:

In their lamest pick since “YOU”, Time picks Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg as its Man of the Year.

Some will rejoice that it’s not Julian Assange. But the pick suggests the magazine was flailing around, looking for a pick that didn’t represent the broad backlash against President Obama and his administration that was reflected in the Tea Party movement and the big GOP gains in the midterm elections. In the end, the pick, which looks like an ad for Columbia Pictures, seems at least two years out of date and oddly disconnected from larger issues of national and international politics and matters of war and peace.

As many are noting this morning, this continues a trend of odd picks, perhaps driven by a desire for newsstand sales, perhaps driven by political correctness, perhaps by a reluctance to acknowledge picks that are perceived as conservative.

It's pretty hard to argue against the idea that the Tea Party should have won this year. They had a huge impact on the U.S. elections, but that would have reflected badly on The One and TIME can't have that. You could also make an argument for the idiot that runs Wikileaks, but I think his impact is probably overrated.