Need a better hypnotist this time, as apparently at least one guy figured it all out. Maybe Erickson? Or, if we don’t need that caliber, we could always throw in Freud, who would also aid in making everything more sexual.
I nominateCarl Georg Munters, who invented Styrofoam. It is a mess when used as packing material and has the same effect on me as nails on a chalkboard when I try to open a cooler.
On that line of thinking my wife nominates Sam Born, the inventor of Peeps, which will of course be available for dessert.
Well, obviously, the devil would serve chocolate cake, as part of his fiendish plot to make it known as “Devil’s Food”. The faithful, of course, know that chocolate is theobromos — the food of God. 
Cheney? He was not actually born. In fact, he attended Satan’s First Great General Council.
Hey, haven’t you read your Dante?! We’re doing Lawful Evil here!
Wagner, for lending intellectual respectability to nonreligious racial anti-Semitism. Nietzsche for providing the intellectual grounding for Nazism. Marx just for being a dogmatic arrogant prick.
Actually that episode (actual title The Devil and Homer Simpson) has a pretty good lineup for the Council:
Benedict Arnold
Lizzy Borden
Richard Nixon
John Wilkes Booth
Blackbeard the Pirate
John Dillinger
the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers.
Ted Kennedy - knows how to get away with murder.
General William Tecumseh Sherman May-He-Rot-in-Hell - arsonist and war criminal.
Osama bin Laden - promising rookie.
Franklin Roosevelt - the man knows how to set up an undying bureaucracy that saps the life and will out of the general population while making everyone think it’s the best thing since sliced bread - cloying populist honey.
Joseph Goebbels - you need a master of propaganda to make people actually WANT to eat that shit sandwich.
Jim Jones - led true believers to the Kool Aid and actually made them drink.
Although it’s hard to point the finger at any one person, those responsible for the Prussian Education System - mandatory, State-sponsored indoctrination that stultifies human creativity and intelligence to this day.
Satan’s closest competitor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_Xianzhong
For people with hands-on experience in the field:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Panzram
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Dirlewanger
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Linky no worky. But based on this one, I don’t see what’s so bad about it. What, are you a Montessori man? That’s defensible, but does not serve to demonize a more structured approach, and the Montessori system is only meant for the elementary-school level anyway. In an industrial society, students need to be trained to take their roles, and in most cases their roles will require regular work hours, taking orders, and turning in assignments on time.
I’ll see your FDR and raise you a Ronald Reagan. Not only was old Ronnie every bit the bureaucrat as FDR, setting up the government to fail the poorest and neediest, but in doing so he empowered his friends in business and gave greed a good name. Roosevelt set up the government to help the meek, Reagan set it up to hurt the meek, and trick them into liking it. Its said the greatest trick the Devil ever played was to convince everyone he didn’t exist, well Reagan expanded the government while at the same time tricking everyone into thinking he shrunk it, and that it was good for them.
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Hurrah! Hurrah! We bring the Jubilee!
Robert E. Heinlein.
Satan will need a brilliant visionary, and let’s face it - Bob *has *to be in Hell.
Is that R. A. H.'s brother?
Also his father, mother and son.
Hey, he knows where he came from—but where did all you zombies come from?
Really? 38 posts and no one has reserved a few seats for Saul of Tarsus, Jesus or Mohammed?
Visionaries, masters of propganda and tribal strife extraordinaires!
Apparently , we meet once a year to discuss this.