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January 11, 2011
Wild Men: An Update.
Wild Men. Wild Women. They love Value. And Quality. And Stepping Up. Wild Men and Women are people who listen only to the little voice in their head. They get things done. They build things. They don't care what you think. Uncertainty and turbulence--in the economy, stock markets, governments, the weather, you name it--only get their juices flowing.
Note: We've added numbers 54, 55, 56: Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik, St. John of Patmos, that king-hell loon who wrote the Book of Revelation, and Doc Holliday, with whom we'd share a foxhole any day.
1. Ben Franklin
2. Ted Turner
3. Dr. Johnson
4. Dr. Thompson
5. Theodore Roosevelt (yes, he was wild)
6. Andrew Jackson
7. Ayn Rand
8. Ana Marie Cox
9. Boudica
10. Dustin Hoffman
11. Winston Churchill
12. Benjamin Disraeli
13. Arianna Huffington
14. Bucky Fuller
15. Jerry Lee Lewis
This is Ted. He's never cared what you think.
16. Bill Buckley
17. Bill Clinton
18. Steve Jobs
19. Captain Harry (Charleston SC fishing/hunting guide)
20. Welsh and Irish guys when they're sober
21. Nick Nolte
22. Ernie from Glen Burnie (DC lawyer, alias of WAC? childhood friend)
23. Christopher Columbus
24. Jann Wenner
25. Sean Penn
26. Ken Wilbur
27. Plato
28. Catherine the Great
29. Val Kilmer (way wilder than Jim Morrison)
30. Harry Dean Stanton
31. Scott Greenfield
32. Julius Caesar
33. Pete Seeger
34. John Lennon
35. Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr.
36. Peter Sheridan
37. Christopher Hitchens
38. Craig Young, Bush Pilot
39. Warren Beatty
40. The waitress at Kelly's who poured beer on me. Twice.
41. John the Baptist
42. Rahm Emanuel
43. Robert Mitchum
44. Joan of Arc
45. Dylan Thomas
46. George Kaufman
46. "E"
47. Boswell (he was wild, too)
48. Ben Jonson
49. Mae West
50. Daniel Pinchbeck
51. Daniel O'Connell
53. Robert Johnson
54. Pima County, Arizona Sheriff Clarence W. Dupnik.
55. St. John of Patmos
56. John Henry "Doc" Holliday
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Granted, sometimes Wild Men go too far. The last three Decembers of Hogmanay in Edinburgh got way, way out of hand.
Posted by JD Hull at January 11, 2011 11:59 PM
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Very beautiful pic...
Thank you for sharing such a beautiful pic here
Posted by: White Plains Divorce Attorney at January 11, 2011 04:21 AM
Mostly good, but a few problems come to mind.
Arianna Huffington? A quick review of the fraudulent quackery on her site mislabeled as "medical" or "health" information quickly shows that she cares little about the quality of what is published under her name.
Plato was the inferior of his teacher Socrates and his student Aristotle. He can never be named on a list without both of them listed before him.
Rahm Emanuel and Ayn Rand never stood for any principles save "me first." Their lives are not worth study, much less emulation.
Of course, if your criteria is people who "listen only to the little voice in their head" and then "get things done" and "don't care what you think," then you will need to add, at a minimum, Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler, and Genghis Khan, all of whom set their minds to a single purpose and then remade the world accomplishing it.
Posted by: Max Kennerly at January 11, 2011 12:32 PM
Is it true that Hemmingway failed to make the list because of his undo concern for his attire and penchant for red neckerchiefs?
Posted by: shg at January 11, 2011 02:18 PM