Time magazine has just published its annual list

of the 100 most influential people in the world,

and, luckily, you're not on it.  Think about it:

  you could have ended up on the same list with

Saif al-Islam Gadhafi, Kim Jong Un,

Michele Bachmann, Amy Chua, Paul

Ryan, Chris Christie, Anwar al-Awlaki,

Joe Scarborough, Muqtada al-Sadr,

Charles Koch, David Koch, Jamie Dimon,

Michelle Rhee, John Boehner, Benjamin

Netanyahu, and Justin Bieber.  Yes, had

you been on it, you would have had to

spend the rest of your life trying to

explain to your erstwhile friends why

guilt by association is a variation

of the Ad Hominem Fallacy.