[Myrddin]

When Paul Harvey started reading some of the names on the list, I immediately questioned the definition of "genius" used to produce the list. I second the need for a barf/hurl/spew alert in the title.

[weegee]

It takes a lot to offset the lack of wisdom espoused by this guy...

[weegee]

Matt Groening is NUMBER FOUR?

A man who's rudimentary cartoons had "that look" because he admittedly couldn't even draw a decent Charlie Brown???

[weegee]

If they are all genuines, what are their measured IQs?

There are people who have an awareness about themselves and some things (like Robert Crumb) who would shrink from any suggestion that they are GENIUSES.

Then there are businessmen like Bill Gates who have ZERO forsight in the industry, let alone technical knowledge. He isn’t a scientist.

Bin Laden?

Soros?

And Brian Wilson, a man who’s mind had already collapsed in a nervous breakdown before long periods of LSD and cocaine use followed by harmful “counselling” that has taken him years to recover from. I’m all for the guy moving on with his life but it is shocking to hear him called a genuis, especially in his present condition. What are idiot savants?

Mohammed Ali? A boxer who’s damaged his head with physical confrontations for sport?

[weegee]

Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

If you don’t read the daily paper you are uninformed.
If you read the MSM you are misinformed.

[Cacique]

Man my Bullsh*t meter just broke....

[Congressman Billybob]

"Popular Acclaim" and "cultural importance" have squat to do with "genius." Case in point: consider the top two rap artists, Fifty Cent and Diddly. I rest my case.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "California Burning"

Here's my announcement of running for Congress in 2008.

[Joe Miner]

The firm emailed 4,000 Britons this summer and asked them to nominate up to 10 living people who they considered geniuses.

They received back 1,100 nominations for individuals in all walks of life, more than 60 per cent of whom were either American or English. Only 60 per cent were still alive.

The list was created by British citizens. I think we can judge the level of British intelligence by the fact that they were asked to nominate living people they considered geniuses and only 60% of their choices were living.