2000s
Never again will one simple man do so very much to the world. George W. Bush (and Dick Cheney), 2001-2009. [YouTube]
Ken Layne: Hello former colleague, may I briefly interview you in Real Time about the most significant political development of the decade, the Blingee? Alex Pareene: YES of course. KL: Hooray! Okay now I will make up these questions. Umm … let’s see, you first discovered the Blingee, is that right?
Want to jump out the (first floor) window all over again? Because we’re on a strict One Video Per Year regimen, let’s just skip right past Y2K and the whole dismal Summer 2000 presidential campaign and the USS Cole bombing and the Concorde crash outside of Paris and, uhm, Elian Gonzales, because we must Economize, [...]
Whoa hey is it almost the 2010s? And here I am still writing “Fuck the Pope” on my checks. Well, let’s start the first of a Very Long Series of special “year ender” journamalism features of the kind you could once find in your “local newspaper” this time of year, back when there were newspapers.
