Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the year 2011. Today is January 1st, or 1-1-11. It will be another 11 years, one month and one day before a date confluence of this sort occurs on 2-2-22.
Today is also the first of 53 Caturdays in 2011, so all of you cat lovers need to start snapping more pics so you can keep up with your posting obligations. And speaking of posting ob ligations, this marks, I am reliably informed, my 175th Top Comments diary.
Yesterday, while post people were busy stockpiling alcohol and Alka Seltzer, the punditocracy was busy making year-end lists of best and worst everything, from movie scenes to tweets, as well as enshrining their predictions for 2011. Curiously, I didn’t find anyone who references their predictions for 2010, in either the best or worst categories.
So what do the elite guardians of our airwaves and thought processes see for us in 2011? Let’s take a look. And don’t worry, for those of you who still have queasy stomachs and slight headaches, it will be a brief, heavily edited look.
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