[Kylon]

This includes world famous scientist, politicians, actors/actresses, businessmen, activist, religious figure, ect...


Basically someone who is recognizable outside their local community.

Whose your favorite?

[BigTex]

I like Warren Buffet.

I also like Ben Stein very much. There's a lot more to that dude than you would think.

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Kylon', 'T')his includes world famous scientist, politicians, actors/actresses, businessmen, activist, religious figure, ect...


Basically someone who is recognizable outside their local community.

Whose your favorite?

[emersonbiggins]

You mean that art school dropout? I wonder what ever happened to him...

(I've never seen a Godwin so early in a thread)

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'Y')ou mean that art school dropout?

[emersonbiggins]

Do you have any links to his watercolor renderings? I would be interested in seeing his work. (no double entendres here)

[PenultimateManStanding]

They are all over the internet. Hitler was an accomplished painter. It was that failed artistic talent that he turned into that demonic spell that he cast over Germany. Interestingly, he never persecuted Picasso or his Jewish girlfriend.

[BigTex]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('emersonbiggins', 'D')o you have any links to his watercolor renderings? I would be interested in seeing his work. (no double entendres here)

[jasonraymondson]

Does Cartman Count?

[lawnchair]

Ivan Illich is probably too obscure (and dead now).

Some of the open-source guys. Richard Stallman or Theo de Raadt. Assholes, both, but assholes for the common good.

I really like people like Jerry Brown or Ralph Nader (not that I don't disagree with Ralph plenty) who make a point to refuse trappings they could get into.

[bodigami]

The music bands Tool, Samael and Therion.

[pedalling_faster]

Cynthia McKinney. slugging it out with Rumsfeld at some
congressional hearing.

[evilgenius]

Richard Feynman as far as science goes. He is dead like the next guy I like, Einstein. After them I go for FDR. After FDR I really like Churchill. After Churchill maybe Clement Atlee because the National Health is one of the greatest things in any time. Linus Pauling won two Nobel prizes, two! Watson and Crick only had the one between them but for good reason. Can anybody remember the name of the fantastic woman that helped Watson and Crick, but was dead at award time? They don't give the Nobel to dead people. As long as we are talking dead people what about Alexander, Jesus, Scipio Africanus?

[Tanada]

Ytzakh Pearlman (the violinist, I can't spell his name but that is who I mean)

George Lucas, for changing the way we look at and listen to movies.

Larry Niven, Jerry Pournell and Harry Turtledove for providing fictional settings for me to think about.


AARON for running this site like a fine swiss watch.

[Kaj]

Noam Chomsky. Absolutely tireless scholar dedicated to public life.

Probably Hugo Chavez and Tony Benn in joint second place.

(Dead ones: Charlie Chaplin + George Orwell)

[catbox]

Right now it's George Carlin for just being him.

Even though he's gone, Joe Strummer remains for me a favorite public human.....the man and his band changed my life.

Our Mayor, Kitty Piercy is a great local figure.


cb

[DomusAlbion]

President George Bush.

He introduced me to Peak Oil by invading an oil rich Middle Eastern country. He motivated me to look for the real reasons, not just the stated reasons, the US would spend so much money and military resources to occupy an ugly sandy shit hole.

[careinke]

Dead- Thomas Jefferson

Alive - Ron Paul

[wisconsin_cur]

Dead:


Dostoevsky

Alive:

Wendell Berry

[shakespear1]

Orwell, he understood and in a clever way told everyone about it