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Looking Forward Main Column | Holidays Holidays, 1 January 2008 Memo to 2008: YOU WILL BE DUMB. I have to say, if I were going to decide to hang up my hate hat and end this grand experiment in the mocking of our collective notsobrightitude, now would be the perfect fucking time to do it. For my sake, anyway, if not for yours. The very first year of YAD was a presidential election year, and between the inevitable stupidity, the non-stop media coverage, and the incomprehenibly disappointing re

Only a few minutes remain in 2007, so it’s high time to take a look back and give some well-earned recognition to those people without whose foibles the past year would not have been possible. The It Takes A Village Award to Lynne Spears, who apparently needs an entire village to keep track of the doings of her daughters. Britney and Jamie Lynn have devolved from celebrities into the sort of individuals who make The Jerry Springer show what it is. Sen. Larry Craig is the deserving recipient o

2007: It was a year that was, by many measures, disappointing. The war in Iraq, which has cost us so much blood and treasure, showed no signs of coming to an end, while tensions with Iran and North Korea left open the possibility of future military conflicts. In order to claim that we don’t torture people, we changed the definition of torture. Economic uncertainty caused prices at the gas pump to soar and home values to crash. Tragic disasters caused by man (shootings at Virginia Tech, a mall i

The real father is a NICKELODEON producer? It’s not only statutory rape, it’s yucky, too. Happy New Year.

2007 officially became the year that gossip went from super market checkout guilty pleasure to breaking news on “legitimate” news channels. Thanks to the insane numbers of readers gossip blogs seem to draw, everyone wanted a piece of the celebrity news pie, from amateur start-ups to respected national news organizations to certain (also-respected) local news institutions. One could possibly make the point that the paternity tug-of-war following the death of tabloid mainstay Anna Nicole Smith