The worst of the worst
by digby
There are a lot of year-end lists out there today, but this one from The Week has got to be the most inane. It purports to list the “seven key questions to be answered” in 2011:
1. Who will emerge as the favorite to win the 2012 GOP nomination?
2. Will Afghanistan stabilize?
3. Will there be an NFL lockout?
4. Will health-care reform be hobbled?
5. Can Obama bounce back?
6. Will unemployment finally start to fall?
7. Will the Verizon iPhone live up to the hype?
Yep. Those are the “key” questions facing us in the next year. I don’t know why they included that dumb one about unemployment, but the rest are solid. I’m certainly on pins and needles about that Verizon iPhone thing.
Sadly, I think this may be a fairly decent overview of the media’s agenda for 2011. Depending on Palin of course.
Update: Dean Baker offers up a year-end dream. Maybe if we all dream it together, it will come true.
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