The Badass MF Awards (First in an Irregular Series)

So, John Hawkins of Right Wing News tweeted this:

"The great danger to the consumer is the monopoly -- whether private or governmental. His most effective protection is free competition." MF

I readily deduced that the MF in question had to be the inestimable Milton Friedman. So in response I tweeted the following (which Ed Driscoll kindly retweeted, thanks Ed)

MF=Milton Friedman, of course, I think he should always be referred to as Badass Milton Friedman (or Badass Mofo, for short)

If any economist ever earned the title Badass, it certainly must be Milton Friedman, and that'd be the case even if his initials weren't MF.

Surely there are other MFs that deserve to always be referred to as the Badass MF, so here at Immodest Proposals it's time to bestow the Badass MF Award to the baddest assest MFs in a variety of categories. Some are transcendently badass, others may have earned their badassness somewhat by default, but all are, in one way or another, Badass MFs. To inaugurate this honor, I'm going the presidential route.

U.S. Presidents
And the nominees for Badass MFs amongst current and former Presidents are:

George Washington for being our first, and a man who followed Cincinattus' example when he could have easily gone the despot route.

Abraham Lincoln for correcting a horrible wrong, waging a horrible but just war, and preserving the Union against great odds.

Calvin Coolidge for saying more with his silences than most Presidents do with all their yapping.

Millard Filmore for actually having the initials MF (and for not much else)

Ronald Reagan for being a force of nature, reshaping an entire generation of American politics and righting the wrongs of his immediate predecessor.

And the winner is, George Washington, sorry Millard, you may be the only MF, but you aren't the baddest of the badass MF Presidents, that'd be our first President, hands down, no real contest.