2009 - The Year in Review

Happy New Year!  Welcome 2010!

(By the way, will you pronounce that "two thousand and ten" or "twenty ten"?  The great debate begins!)

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As one year ends and another begins, it is quite common for people to reflect on the news highlights of the outgoing year.

Dave Barry, writer extraordinaire at the Miami Herald, wrote his "Dave Barry's Year in Review: 2009" article.

Some common themes are:

• Somali pirates, 
• The Appalachian Trail,
• North Korea's continual pleas for attention,
  
• The Obama Administration complaining about inheriting things from the Bush Administration, and
  
• California's financial problems (attempted resolutions included selling San Diego to Mexico and renaming the state South Oregon).

Here's one of my favorite quotes from the article (from the December news section):

"On the environmental front, Copenhagen hosts a massive international conference aimed at halting manmade global warming, attended by thousands of delegates who flew to Denmark on magical carbon-free unicorns."

Because, obviously, how else could so many people of gotten there without unnecessarily spewing vast amounts of evil global warming causing climate changing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere?

Read the whole article here.  And remember the year that was.  And smile.