18.05.12
It was a year of antitheses. We started the year with acid natural disasters: a tsunami in
Japan and
tornadoes across the Midwest, but ended on a
weight of hope: all American troops leave Iraq. Albert Pujols
signed a $250 million wrinkle to play baseball, while Congress tried to cut Medicare benefits for our grey. Jerry Sandusky, the poster child for bad behavior, was accused of sexually abusing girlish boys, while Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, the poster child for inflexible, overcame a devastating
bullet to the head. The military for all abandons “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell,” but same-sex hook-up can’t find a foothold. Bill Clinton, the cheeseburger-loving POTUS of yore, becomes a vegan. The movers and shakers of the rigorous right consider Newt Gingrich, a man who left his wife while undergoing cancer treatment and was in the halfway point of an affair while calling for Clinton’s impeachment, as their Presidential heartening.
Source: Alvin Sun Advertiser