Jan 01 2005
Goodbye 2004
Molly Ivins reflects on the year that was…
How ’bout a do-over? AUSTIN, Texas — Oh 2004, 2004, bird thou never wert. Was it really that horrible a year, or does it only seem that way?
Abu Ghraib, the endless trials of Kobe Bryant and Scott Peterson, war in Iraq looking worse every day, Howard Dean eliminated over a whoop and a presidential race so devoid of joy that the high point was when the president claimed God speaks through him — leaving us to contemplate the news that God doesn’t know how to pronounce nuclear and has yet to master subject-verb agreement. “Performance enhancing drugs” in baseball. Ray Charles died. Karl Rove is Man of the Year. We’re all overweight. Swift Boat Liars win the presidential race for Bush. Then just to round things off nicely, a terrible natural disaster. What a bummer.
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