Good Riddance, '00s • Newsweek made a video titled "The Decade in 7 Minutes," which could have been a fun look back except that 9/11, George W. Bush, and Afghanistan all happen in the first 30 seconds and then you start looking at your watch because, man, this has been a rough one!
Posted at 10:45 AM in Where Are They Now?, Where Were They Then?
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Best of the decade in Nov. 2009? Newsweek is like "FIRST".
Score = 14
"Flags everywhere!"
Patriotism isn't dead, it's just contracted terminal stupid.
Score = 1
This overlooks the real tragedy: the decade is almost over and we still haven't come up with a catchy name for it. We still have a month and half for "the naughty aughties" to catch on, help me out people.
Score = 8
I vote for "the guidos".
Score = 3
Why is your avatar resistant to hover enlargement? Creepy.
Score = 7
Iconoclasm? I have no idea.
Score = 0
The 2:(:(:('s
(the two-frownzens?)
Score = 9
The frownies!
Score = 1
The Flaming Douchies (which is also, coincidentally, the name of my next band)
Score = -1
apparently natural disasters are a lot rougher on countries that aren't America. I guess that's the benefit of having a god-loving president.
Score = 2
We "ought" to forget the "Aughts"! It has been a truly abysmal decade from start to finish and I cannot wait for 2012 to come and wipe everything out.
Score = 7
Welp, the Katrina response still has the power to make me feel really sad and angry. Thanks for reminding me, Newsweek.
Score = 5
This is officially the most solemn comment to ever start with the word "Welp"
Score = 9
At least we're only five years away from hoverboard technology.
Score = 5
Thanks for reminding me how much the past decade sucked, Newsweek.
I wanna go back to the 90's when I was a kid and still naively believed that everything was great and that people would always the "right" person for president (aka what my parents thought because I was a kid) and he would make everything good and happy.
Score = 0