Poll Results

Thanks to everyone who answered the poll. Here's how it broke down:

Q: How many famous blind and partly blind people can you name?

75% could name less than five
18% could name between five and ten
6% could name more than ten

I could only count six:
Claude Monet
David Paterson
Ray Charles
Stevie Wonder
Blind Sheikh Abdel-Rahman*
Helen Keller
Louis Braille

*You may or may not know that this fine gentleman is a hero to many terrorists. "Famous" does not necessarily mean "good"; Hitler was once named Time's Man of the Year.

Anyway, a comment on the 11/30 post lists some other notable blind and not-not-blind people I hadn't thought of (or heard of, in many cases). For instance, I had no idea that Pulitzer was blind... although if you think about who's gotten his prize for theater, it starts to make sense. Dinner with Friends? Come on!

(Just kidding... blind people have better taste than that.)