Time Magazine recently asked a bunch of celebrities who they thought should win this year’s Person of the Year award. Stephen King, of course, said Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan should win because they have destroyed the legitimacy of all media (…?). Aretha Franklin nominated her friend Bill Cosby for all his important work speaking out against black kids making a scene in the candy shoppes wearing their baggy jeans. My favorite, though, was Brian Williams’ choice for Person of the Year. Because it was the same as mine.

My [Brian Williams] nominee for 2007 Person of the Year is a woman…

…a woman with a history of abuse…

…a woman who has never run for elective office…

…someone we all know, someone who makes her presence known on a daily basis in all our lives and, for my money, is better than any male alternative.

That woman is Mother Earth.