Who's Up Next?

With the death of Yasir Arafat creating a vacuum in the Palestinian leadership, the jockying for his successor (and those billions of looted dollars) has begun in earnest. But another void has been created by his death, that of Ugliest World Leader. The past few decades have seen the demise of many truly hideous world leaders, leaving a field about as depleted as the bottom-half of the AL Central. This I suppose is an unavoidable by-product of the television age.

The obvious choice to replace Arafat, in looks as well as fashion, is North Korean "peerless leader" Kim Jong-Il. Ironically though, one of the dark horses for top spot is Arafat's long-time nemesis, Ariel Sharon. Thus, time marches on.