2011 was such a letdown that it doesn’t even deserve full sentences or paragraphs…or I’m just completely lazy at this point after a weary year of turmoil. So for now I’m just going to throw out some of my own headlines that I would have written about this year except that I was too busy fighting the good fight and well..losing and then winning and then losing more..and then recovering…and..well you get the picture. So here goes. See if you guess the real story from the phrases below.
1)Canada craps on the planet again.
2)Mother nature slaps hard when you keep raiding the cookie jar.
3)See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil and do nothing about the evil that is right in front of your face when you were elected to do something about it.
4)Apathy isn’t a great video game but it helps big business.
5)Another two bite the dust.
6)Too much “i” not enough “we”.
Answers:
1) Canada’s PM Stephen Harper pulls out of Kyoto, increases Tar Sands production and gives the finger to anyone who is concerned about clear air, climate change or the future.
2)Japan, probably the single greatest nation fishing the hell out of the oceans and killing whales by the hundreds gets hit hard by an earthquake and tsunami. Sounds like revenge.
3)Obama becomes a huge disappointment in the wake of the Wall Street Bank meltdown by Not making any significant changes to stop the rampant greed and fraud at the highest levels of the banking industry.
4) Occupy Wall Street gets bored and moves on as people raised on videogames realize that in the real world no one really cares how cool you are on the internet and they aren’t going to pay you real wages for getting more facebook friends.
5)Ghaddafi gets taken out by his own people and Kim Jong Il just dies and the world is rid of two more evil dictators. Yay!
6)Steve Jobs dies at the height of ipad, ipod, iphone, and itune mania, and we realize that what he brought to the world was “cool gadgets” that make people less likely to talk to each other in public.
Critical? Harsh? I’ll let you be the judge.
Enjoy the New Year!













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