Thursday, December 29, 2005
End-of-the-Year Festivities
Late December is when bullet points come out to play. National Review has posted its contributors’ predictions for 2006; Professor Bainbridge has the top wines of 2005 (something in which the whole Dartblog readership will be far more interested than I, society page folks that they are); Austin Bay and friends weigh in on the top stories; Jeff Jarvis offers his end-of-year rant, which, delightfully, is about end-of-year things; Yale linguistics folks look at the top words of 2005; Roger Ebert provides his top movies of 2005 (which caused me to realize that I have not seen a new Hollywood film all year, and the grass is just a bit greener; the air sweeter); National Journal’s Hotline calls 2005 “the year of blogging dangerously”; BBC reports the ‘most missed’ television programs, with Star Trek handily topping the list; Brian Stelter runs the year’s cable news ratings and finds the top shows; the Media Research Center, a right-wing group, offers video of the year’s most outrageous examples of television news bias; the lovely and talented Peggy Noonan writes on the five big stories of 2005; Hugh Hewitt and Glenn Reynolds look at the blogosphere’s performance in 2005, including the phenomenon of Sith traffic; Andrew Sullivan is once again awarding his insultingly-limned awards; and Ana Marie Cox presumably has written something about the top panda bears of 2005.
MORE: Of course, my top story of the year was the world’s freedom ticker which, as I wrote just before Christmas, ticks relentlessly up. Later tonight I will throw up my prediction posts and retrospective.
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