Here's Barbara Walters’ list of the 10 Most Fascinating People of 2010:
1. General David Petraeus
2. Betty White
3. Mark Zuckerberg
4. Justin Bieber
5. Cast of “Jersey Shore”
6. Sandra Bullock
7. Jennifer Lopez
8. LeBron James
9. Kate Middleton
10. Sarah Palin
Here's my list of the 10 Most Fascinating People of 1848:
1. Giuseppe Garibaldi
2. Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte
3. Mikhail Bakunin
4. Giuseppe Mazzini
5. Adam Mickiewicz
6. Victor Hugo
7. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
8. Klemens von Metternich
9. Lajos Kossuth
10. Karl Marx
To paraphrase General Patton, "God I hate the 21st century." Also: what does the contrast between Mazzini and Garibaldi vs. Snooki and The Situation tell us about the decline of the Italian race?
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