Hiatus? What hiatus?

On January 2nd, 2008, I decided to toss out some predictions for the New Year. 11.5 months later, I wonder how I did…?

Please note my disclaimer from that post,

“I’d like to make my first post of the year one where I can look back and say, “Why the hell did I put that in writing? I’m an idiot.” So, let’s make some predictions!”

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Politics, Politicians, Elections, and Electoral Mayhem

• Disclosure? Is that even in their vocabulary??
• Obama knows his Presidency may be a bit of a stretch to conceive, but he’s got the backing of the only Iraq War vet in Congress
• Uhh, are we officially crowning her? Has this year’s process been bastardized already?
• Help is on the way! We’re saved!!! Wait… it’s the French?
• Senator Leahy to the White House: “I’m your worst nightmare… bitch.”
• Levin calls for Maliki’s ouster
• Does it really matter what the President knows about foreign policy before (s)he is elected
• Pollgasm alert: It appears that Hillary is polling fairly well in RED STATE matchups with top GOP candidates
• Congressional medal of honor winner, George Tenet… faulted completely for 9/11… by the CIA
• Wiki wars!

Sport, in all its glory and wonderfulness

• Vick did this to himself
• Great golf stories
• Eli grows some stones (woo!)
• Nitpicking over the details… you know, whether he got hit with a bat or not.

Stuff for nerds and environmentalists like me

• It takes a village… even for birds
• Oy vey, green pork
• Artifical life likely in 3 to 10 years… are YOU prepared for the batlle?
• Oldest. Footprint. Ever
• Harper Lee speaks
• Are we too obsessed with climate change?
• Neato… space solar energy

Stuff for dorks and pop-culture addicts (not so much like me)

• I hope nobody has bought a high resolution video player yet, because this little kerfuffle just won’t die.
• Countdown with Keith Olbermann moving to NBC?
• 40 years ago and the most signifcant album ever released meets questions of “blackness”
• DiCaprio bores paparazzi into leaving him alone by talking about global warming

Miscellaneous… or just plain weird

• What the fuck? MySpace for spies?
• Hey Brendan, next transgression and I’m making you wear pink!
• Holy deep-fried, Batman! (Warning: May cause Thomas or other slobs like him to drool excessively)
• Life changing questions
• An intriguing movie about Bob Dylan, and an interesting way to release it
• I’ve already pre-ordered mine, anybody else????
• Reading is tanking in America. It also looks like Ds and liberals read more than Rs and conservatives…
• Topless car wash, woo!

Politics, Politicians, Elections, and Electoral Mayhem

• It just keeps getting earlier
• Should Romney’s sons’ decisions against serving give a right to cast judgment on Romney’s pro-war positions?
• All of this past year’s Supreme Court decisions!
• One thing he has in common with Jed Bartlett… he failed to disclose a serious medical condition
• How green is your candidate?
• Don’t call it a comeback…
• El President doesn’t like shared sacrifice… he really doesn’t
  • And he feels bad for corporations
• Gay (voting) power!

Sport, in all its glory and wonderfulness

• Beijing Olympics… the stuff they don’t want us to see
• A different take on the Vick situation
• Beckham comes to D.C.
  • Americans are also taking notice of the British obsesions with WAGs

Stuff for nerds and environmentalists like me

• Is there a challenge to linear evolution
• Uhh, ain’t nothin’ like a hybrid car that gets worse mileage than its standard engine supplement
• Which fruits and vegetables are best to buy organic?

Stuff for dorks and pop-culture addicts (not so much like me)

• Top 20 movie endings (take heed of the spoiler alert)
• Who does Hollywood back in ‘08?
  • Ooooh, Leo gets his own article

Miscellaneous… or just plain weird

• For your reading pleasure
• It’s always the glue maker’s fault, isn’t it?
• Whites are now in the minority in 10% of counties in America
• Hey Thomas, I guess Jennie was just following a trend when she ordered that burger on your first date

Politics, Politicians, Elections, and Electoral Mayhem

• Lapdog no more?
• Ruh-roh. Hard times a comin’ for Gucci Gulch
• Like Jeter and A-Rod, things have cooled down for Obama and the Hillster. I guess that means no more sleepovers for them either.
• An interview with Bill Richardson
• Dog chases cat. Republican picks on Democrat. Red Sox fan mocks Yankees fan.
• Oh my, Hillary’s taking some shots for her lobbying stance
• Now these are always fun… a 2008 competitive House race chart!
• A shift in public sentiment towards the war?
• Who woulda thunk, they still don’t act civilized
• Republican debate reactions from RedState
• Is Thompson’s Watergate work a tad tainted?
• Oh, and in case you haven’t seen this yet… Indecision 2008 is online!

Sport, in all its glory and wonderfulness

• This is why minor league baseball is the best
• Interesting. A regional breakdown of baseball allegiances

Stuff for nerds and environmentalists like me

• Woohoo! Renewable energy rules! Fossil fuel drools! Eat that, you knuckle-dragging, coal munchers
  • More from the LA Times on this good energy legislation
  • A little breakdown of the green jobs provision from Grist
• Bush to UN: I wanna hold my own climate talks!!!
• The old outpost makes a comeback?
• Fat doesn’t kill people. People kill people.
• The development of a societal work ethic?… Or perhaps the evolution of a society?
• Would this be called global warming sticker shock?
• Think globally, eat locally
• A great review of Who Killed the Electric Car?
• Plastic = baaad
• Heidi Cullen rocks

Stuff for dorks and pop-culture addicts (not so much like me)

• Pattie Boyd tells us her side of the Clapton-Harrison love triangle
• Top ten high school movies… according to WaPo’s blog
• Paul Allen distancing himself from DreamWorks

Miscellaneous… or just plain weird

• Hitler liked Jew… ish music
• Awww, poor wittle Bob Novak doesn’t get to talk to the Pwesident anymore
• Green appliances, as good as advertised?
• It appears Slate has begun to spy on 17 year olds…
• Want to raise your ratings? Bang the Mayor.
• Umm, competitive birthing?
• Goodbye Weekly World News, we shall miss you and your half-man, half-bat, half-leprechaun