Tonight, the Discovery Channel will air the beginning of its series-special on the 100 Greatest Americans. The list was compiled by nominations through AOL. Even a cursory glance at their list will give ample evidence of why AOL users are stereotyped the way they are. I bet, I hope that Discovery Channel is embarrassed by this list.
I found that almost half the list had no business being anywhere near the top 100 greatest Americans of all-time. I counted 85 of the 100 were from the 20th/21st centuries, and fully 36 are modern, the sort that are in the news (or, perhaps more accurately, in People magazine) these days. So, in 230 years of American greatness, we have 64 nominees for the first 220 years, and the rest (over a third!) who found their apogees in the past decade. Right.
I segmented the AOL list into 7 categories, which i will outline in the next entry.
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