Things to Forget

Here are a few things I wish that I could forget, but probably never will, (snipped from Arianna Huffington's column) about 2004:

Bernard Kerik. That the woman who dismissed a presidential briefing entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." as a "historical" document is going to be our next secretary of state. That a man who finds the Geneva Conventions "quaint" is going to be our next attorney general. Janet Jackson's briefly exposed right boob. (And every other Right boob who continues to drag our country further into the cesspool of neocon evil.) Paris Hilton. "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." That picture of Lynndie England holding the leash. William Hung, recording artist. That a 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich allegedly bearing the likeness of the Virgin Mary sold for $28,000 on eBay. That Osama is still on the loose — and releasing tapes. That the Kyoto Protocol was ratified — and we aren't part of it. That Ken Lay has still not gone to trial or served a minute in jail. That 42 percent of Americans still think Saddam Hussein was "directly involved in planning, financing or carrying out" the 9/11 attacks.