Time Magazine selected Vladimir Putin as its Person of the Year and yet managed in its fawning interview with him to get his birth year wrong by six years. Inspired by Time’s crack staff and more generally by the spirit of silly end-of-the-year lists and meaningless nominations, I propose semi-presidential candidate Chris Dodd as the first-ever P+P Person of the Last Month of the Year. The man took a singular inspirational stance this month against the unabashed broad-based movement in Washington to (1) extend the Bush administration’s anti-Constitutional warrantless spying program and (2) grant amnesty to the dirty rotten collaborating telcoms, which for years have been exchanging our privacy for a continued invitation to the smoke-filled rooms of profit-making policy creation. For details, read Glenn Greenwald’s account of how Mr Dodd went to Washington and fought the good fight only to be doubted, villified and condemned for it by his peers, a sure sign if ever there was one that he had done something right.