2008: Good Riddance?
Perhaps it’s fitting that plummeting temperatures put a chill on tonight’s reveling in Time Square – a bitter end to 2008, annus horribilis?
There seems to be some glaring incongruities this holiday season. And it’s not just wacky mother nature that gives us 67-degree spring breeze one day and showers us with sleet the next.
On the one hand, about half of people surveyed by NBC News/Wall Street Journal believe 2008 was one of the worst years in American history. On the other, if you had spent half an hour in the vicinity of Rock Center in New York City, you would probably not use “sour” to describe the public mood.
Granted, there’re loads of foreign, aka boorish, tourists who tend to either step on your toes or push you as if you were a stroller. Or perhaps they merely delight in taking pictures with you – not the skyscrapers – in the backdrop.
Quote of the Day
“Children who grow up in a different environment may have very different early experiences, and may process information differently than children from a different environment.”
- BBC
