Saturday, January 01, 2005

2005: Why bother...

Here is why.

One of those clever "future-histories" that people find so amusing around this time of the year... Well, fine... My feeble little brain chuckles at them...

History. - 01/05/2005 - 06/29/2005
History II. - 07/01/2005 - 12/14/2005

A couple highlights...

January 20, 11:52 am – At Bush’s inauguration, a protester carrying a “Four More Wars” sign is shot dead by a Secret Service agent

January 20, 11:53 am – Leading bloggers run out of synonyms for “Yay!”

January 20, 11:54 am – Major networks cut away from footage of Bush’s motorcade to cover the shooting

January 20, 11:55 am – Leading bloggers run out of synonyms for “treason”

February 5 – Bill O’Reilly writes a syndicated column accusing the “liberal media élite” of drinking the blood of Christian and Jewish babies

February 6 – A small daily newspaper in New Mexico refuses to run O’Reilly’s column

March 12 – In Baghdad, a Syrian diplomat’s wife’s brother’s maid’s uncle is found with traces of C-4 on his shoes

March 17 – U.S. attacks Syria

April 25 – A German imam says something stupid about Israel

April 26 – Leading bloggers call for a U.S. boycott of V-E Day ceremonies

August 27 – Someone deposits a flaming bag of dog feces on Sean Hannity’s front doorstep; Hannity’s shoes are damaged beyond repair

And so on... Read it.

Silt 3.0

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