Though next year is the expert pick for the end of the world, at least one batshit preacher,

Harold Camping, called on God to end it all in 2011. This prediction brought great excitement among this sinner. I fletched some new arrows and polished my aluminum bat hoping for a night of the living dead. But the next morning arrived on schedule. Harold Camping would revise his calculations and predict another Apocalypse five months later but I wasnt about to be fooled again. In 2011 Businesses as Usual got a kick in the knees by a sudden wave of protestors occupying public parks. Even Fox News had to use the words income inequity albeit to either discredit it or to defend it. In return for their efforts the protestors have received some occasional empty rhetoric from politicians, pepper spray in their eyes, and having to hear the privileged few that, for reasons unknown, earn thousands of times more than anyone else call the occupiers spoiled for trying to make the world more fair. Thanks to events like the Arab Spring and the continuing trouble people are having with heart attacks, we are now running very low on cool dictators. No more Kim Jong Il with his platform shoes. No more Qaddafi and his elite female body guards. It is sad that colorful despots are going out of fashion. I have to admit they havent exactly kept up with the times. If only they saw their potential as reality TV stars they might have held onto power a little longer. Who wouldnt want to watch Qaddafi audition Ukrainian nurses? Clearly, a missed opportunity. He might have been able to keep power as long as he had decent ratings instead of being abruptly canceled and sodomized with an AK-47. Speaking of reality TV series, the Republican Presidential Primaries has been entertaining but it could have been better. It was fun watching the candidates being eliminated one by one by being exposed as batshit crazy, unable to talk in complete phrases, a groper or all of the above. Still, the networks should have put the candidates in a Survivor setting instead wasting all that money on those boring debates. Then we could watch Romney pay Perry ten grand to get him some coconuts while giving Herman Cain high interest loans to bribe Michelle Bachmann into being quiet about what happened the night before. Somewhere deep in the jungle, Ron Paul could be found munching on Newt Gingrinchs leg claiming It was either him or me! It was the Year of Twitter. Not only was the Arab Spring launched through tweets but almost everything that happened in Washington could easily be summed up in 140 characters or less. We have had the continued privilege of watching our elected leaders take on complicated problems with catchphrases. The Republican response to anything Obama proposed doesnt take anywhere near 140 characters: House Republicans @Obama: No #whatever The one time they Republicans and Democrats did come together was for the National Defense Authorization Act which allows the government to detain citizens for whatever reason and hold them at least until waterboarding is legalized if not forever. This general attitude the government has for the people can be summed up in another simple tweet.

US Government @USCitizens: Fuck you.