2005: Not what it could have been

Well, time to look back on a whole year of miscellany to ponder whether any of us are actually any wiser, or if we've just waxed another layer of jade on. Lets take a look:

The bad:
- We saw the passing of Richard Pryor, Rosa Parks, The Handicapped Checker at Safeway on 15th and Denny, my pet rat Beaker, and most of the city of New Orleans (among others).
- The Seattle monorail plan got ditched... again.
- Washington State decided to embark on a half-baked plan to make us all healthier by a sort of tabacco prohibition, or banning of smoking in all businesses--the most restrictive smoking ban in the hemisphere (Of course you can still legally go get wasted on cheap booze and fill up on lard-soaked onion rings while engulfed in fried-chicken/BBQ smoke... but I guess its all okay now that there is no second hand cigarette smoke, and never mind the fact that although lard tastes better than cigarette smoke, many more people actually die of heard disease than lung cancer).
- Global warming is starting to kill polar bears.

The good:
- George W Bush proved to the rest of the world that he really is a poo-flinging monkey.
- High gas prices have made the obese, gluttonous, and gentrified at least hesitate before buying their third SUV.
- Mary Kay LeTourneau and Vili Fualaau get married.
- Elton John gets married.
- Global warming is finally starting to kick our ass.
- We can now take tweezers on the airplane.

Below: Artwork of the year--A window into
the neighbor's bush, By Andy Thorp.














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