Posts Tagged ‘2010’
It’s the New Year… while this may be a time of hope and anticipation… it might be hard to top 2010 for crazy events and happenings!
We’ve sifted through a lot of “year in review” lists from our favorite blogs and sites… Here are a few highlights:
From Politico: The 10 worst decisions of 2010. Highlight: “Eric Massa’s tickle defense”
From The Daily Beast: 14 Best Late Night TV Moments of the Year. Highlight: “The Sometime at Night Show with Some White Guy”
From Gawker: And Now They’re Dead: People We Lost in 2010. (Giving a highlight here feels rude.)
From New York Magazine’s Vulture blog: The 50 Greatest Vulture Slideshows of 2010. Highlight: It’s a list of the best lists of the year. What’s not to love, if you love lists?
From NPR Music: 50 Favorite Albums of 2010. Highlight: Arcade Fire’s ‘The Suburbs’
From Buzzfeed: The 30 Most Important Cats of 2010. Highlight: Cat hugging his teddy bear
From the “Today Show”: “Today” Looks Back at 2010’s Newsmakers. Highlight: Kanye West (enough said)
And for all of the cynics/list-haters out there… From Politics Daily and Walter Shapiro: Why I Hate Year-End List Stories — a Rant with a List. Highlight: Perspective.
There’s a good mix there, but comment and show us something you’ve seen that we missed!
Check out DJ Earworm’s annual mash-up of the top 25 songs of the year, named by Billboard, and rock out while you prepare for the new year!
New Year Eve is a time for reflection… and Parties!
When reflecting back on 2011 there was one party that got every one’s attention:
The Tea Party.
Despite their sometimes silly costumes and signs, the ultraconservative Tea Party proved they were serious in 2010.
From Florida to Alaska, Tea Partiers bucked the GOP establishment by making sure their candidates were on the ballots of many of the year’s most watched electoral races. Their new-found political clout garnered media attention all over the country.
The attention wasn’t always positive. In Delaware, Tea-Party-favorite Christine O’Donnell was repeatedly mocked after being forced to announce she wasn’t a witch.
Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul received bad press of his own when he made provocative comments about civil rights. Eyebrows were raised when some of his supporters physically attacked a liberal activist.
In the end, the group had highs and lows like any political movement. While they might be credited with putting Republicans into the leadership of the US House of Representatives, they failed to help them take control of the Senate.
So, the question is: Who will be invited to the Party next year?
“I just really want the President to read my book! Honest!” Book is thrown at the President. Enough said.
Sarah Palin is still probably going to go ahead and run for the presidency in 2012. Also, the earth orbits the sun.
“Every speech should begin with a shot of tequila.” A candidate after a college student’s (21+ of course) own heart.
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Stand up, sit down, applaud, guffaw, chuckle, smirk, repeat…for one hour.
That pretty much describe how the folks in the Senate chamber reacted to the State of the Union address last night.
If you were sleeping listening to the President’s speech, you heard a lot of talk and a lot of promises… But what does it all mean?
We’ve found some pretty good analysis of the big event to help answer that question (And make you sound incredibly informed during the discussion at the water fountain/cooler today).
Some of the best commentary came via live blogs and Tweets. Catch up on what we had to say on Twitter in case you missed it! Some other great Tweets:
From the political satirist @BorowitzReport: Instant Poll: 90% of Republicans Who Did Not See Obama’s Speech Disagree With It
Getting to the point is @PatrickRuffini: This change stuff is HARD #shortersotu
Political analyst @marcambinder indicates a positive response to the address: CBS Instapoll: approve of the proposals? 83% said yes. Obama has same priorities as you have? (57% to 73% in sample from pre to post)
Courtesy SCOTUS website.
Unsurprisingly, some people (like Democrat Alan Grayson) don’t like the Supreme Court’s recent finance decision. Raise your hand if you can guess why!
Too big to fail? Not the Dems. Another retirement for the party is at hand!
The divisive bill gets, well, more divisive. The House of Representatives doesn’t trust its mates!
Haitian Coat of Arms- Courtesy of WikiCommons
Boots on the Ground (earthquake-ravaged ground)… US troops arrive at Haiti National Palace to provide aid.
Political Junkies Rejoice… The Massachusetts election is a nail-biter.
This stuff happens in real life!?
A driver whose SUV plunged into a Northern California creek … escaped the sinking vehicle by blasting out the window with a handgun.
So… what will 2010 hold for You?
This question was posed to the USDemocrazy bloggers by our esteemed editor. Below are 2 predictions from each of our writers. There is one a serious observation and one well a little more cheeky. Check back a year from now to see how well we score in the future-telling business!
From Stefmav:
1. People will start to become more aware of the amount of information Google is collecting, resulting in some sort of lawsuit.
2. US Democrazy will be the primary means for educating astronauts of current events and happening when traveling in space.
MZ_Hammer:
1. The US Federal Reserve raises interest rates to quell fears of inflation.
2. Michael Phelps shocks the world by wining a gold medal for ice dancing (apparently he is as good on water as he is in it).
Chickpea:
1. The world of politics will continue to become more and more divisive. Climate change and the economy, two items on congress’s agenda, will become very heated in the year to come.
2. Michael Jackson will rise from the grave and cut a Christmas album with Tupac. …read more.
This time of the year there are many articles and TV shows looking BACK at the events of the past year. The cartoon above dares to look ahead at the events of the next decade. Which of these do you think are most likely to happen? (Cartoon by KAL)
Image taken from fruitfly.wordpress.com
We here at USDemocrazy are quite familiar with reruns. By reruns, we mean our editors mercilessly rerun the same gripes about our alleged bad speling.
But this week, we have come across a rerun of the political sort.
The Associated Press reported over the weekend that former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani may be seeking to re-ignite his political career. …read more.
