What Constitutes a "Thinker" In the Eyes of Foreign Policy Magazine? War Crimes? Functional Idiocy?

Someone please tell me I’m hallucinating…

Foreign Policy has just published its selection of the top 100 global thinkers of 2012. Slavoj Zizek is listed… but at #92. The top of the list includes - I am not making this up - those well-known philosophers Dick Cheney, Bill and Melnda Gates, Bill and Hillary Clinton, and, I swear, Paul Ryan.

Yes.

Paul Ryan.

Also listed are Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice and Binyamin Netenyahu.

Since it’s not April Fool’s Day, and there ha...