You must read Dave Barry’s year in review (via Instapundit). I could not believe it when he had jokes in there about the Winter Olympics – that was less than a year ago? It seems like another century. It’s been a long year. A few classic lines:
This was the year in which the members of the United States Congress, who do not bother to read the actual bills they pass, spent weeks poring over instant messages sent by a pervert. This was the year in which the vice president of the United States shot a lawyer, which turned out to be totally legal in Texas.
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[January] dawns with petty partisan bickering in Washington, D.C., a place where many people view petty partisan bickering as honest, productive work, like making furniture.
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In Paris, thousands of demonstrators take to the streets and shut down the city to demonstrate the fact that, hey, it’s Paris.
Read the whole thing.