2008: The Year of Living Variously

2008 is, variously, the Year of Planet Earth, Intercultural Dialogue, the Linux desktop, Australian Scouting, the Frog, the non-lethal Pain Ray, Fire Pig, Rat, Reef, Potato, Mobile Web (Canada), Super Mini-SUV, Feta (Greece), Push-Pull Polling, the Polar, Sanitation and Puggle Years, 23 new Jordan sneakers, Paniolo ranching (Hawaii),the Kucinich Revolution (unlikely), the Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology, the Fiat 500, the tail-end of the fiscal year'08 US budget (2.9 trillion), Iron Man (Robert Downey, Jr.), the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award (Sweden), Visit Indonesia, the West (US), the Golden Gate Endangered Species Big Race, the Michigan State Year of Arts and Culture, the Euro (Cyprus, Malta), the Slovenian Ascendancy (EU), the Bolivar Fuerte (Venezuela), Wrestlemania XXIV, the Corporate Manslaughter and Homicide Act (UK), the Large Hadron Collider (Switzerland), Bill Gates' retirement, the Beijing Olympics, the last games at both Shea and Yankee stadiums, and the crowning of Burj Dubai as the world's tallest structure (at least higher than the 2,121 foot Warsaw radio mast, now collapsed).

I do have a puggle, have been to East Lansing and the West and hope to return, appreciate the difficulties frogs face and the need for sanitation, don't see Linux breaking through, probably won't try to score one of the hot new Jordans (although my daughter does work at Finish Line), have run into the occasional molecular/cellular biologist and particle physicist and wish them the best, whatever it is they do, am more intrigued by the Polar than the Feta year, glad for Slovenia and wary of Indonesia, would never buy a Fiat, was completely unaware of but am intrigued by Hawaiian paniolo ranches, don't like the sound of the Super Mini-SUV or Pain Ray (non-lethal though it may be), not sure what the Year of the Rat portends, although someone said its better then it sounds, am not ready for the Big Race across the Golden Gate but would be happy to whip off a check to the WWF providing it isn't misdirected to Wrestlemania XXIV, can't believe Gates will actually let go of the reins, sorry I never got to either Yankee or Shea Stadium but not sorry enough to actually go, ditto Beijing, think Robert Downey Jr. as "Iron Man" just might be fun, suggest the UAE tower be renamed Babel Dubai, believe in Intercultural Dialogue even though my smattering of Spanish would seem to make the new Venezuelan currency the full-bodied Bolivar, give a big shout out to Australian scouts, potatoes and the late Astrid Lindgren, am bemused by the Corporate Murder Act in Britain, the Fire Pig and Kucinich Revolution and shall not be Push-Pulled. A full plate in 2008.

~ by Michael Feldman

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