While walking around the Denver airport this weekend (which is a great airport) I stumbled across this doozy of a list. Details Magazine had their list of most powerful people under the age of 45. We are getting to the end of the year and magazines are running out of things to write so what does any decent editor do...they come up with a stupid list. You might think that I am a little harsh on the editors of Detail Magazine...just wait till you see who their most powerful people under 45 are. When I think of powerful people I think of people who change the world (good or bad), have a impact on humanity and overall exerts some power. For the most part...Details disagrees.Lets go through some of the people Details thinks are powerful:
#49 Kelly Slater--he surfs for a profession. The reason he is on the list...because he is the rebound for hot chicks (Cameron Diaz, Pam Anderson and Bar Refaeli)
#42 Andrew Speaker--he was the dude with TB. Not sure how that makes him powerful...he was locked up in a Denver hospital for 10 weeks.
#41 Harry Potter--he's not even real.
#35 "The Vocal Vets"--those vets that are against the war. While I can see their spot on the list...where are the vets that quietly go about their lives when they come home. The vets that do hero's work and don't ask for anything in return. Details didn't feel that they were powerful enough to be put on the list. There is more on this later in the list.
#29 Iggy--the dog Ellen gave away. ARE YOU SERIOUS. You cant put military heroes on your list but you can put a dog.
#7 Kevin Federline and Larry Birkhead--WHAT?? What did they do except impregnate trashy rich women. Details...any credibility you had is now gone.
#2 "The Surge"--Here is the first line of their description, "What do you call 20,000 soldiers sent off to fight a war that’s long since been lost? In George W. Bush’s politics of denial, they get a clever name: The Surge." Wow...I don't know what to say.
#1 Zac Efron and Shia LeBoeuf--Disney kids. All they do is act...how does this make them powerful?
So what have we learned from Details Magazine...they really have no clue about what they are talking about. It was like they did a Google search and picked some names, mixed that with the Democrat talking points...and BAM got them a list.
Don't worry though, this is only the start of list season. We had Barbara Walters list now this and pretty soon we will have plenty more. Don't forget that we still have Times' Person of the Year to look forward to. How much do you want to bet it will be Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?