2000's

Ah, the end of a decade is only 4 days away. I have NEVER been so ready for a decade to end. Most of the decades I've been alive have had both ups and downs but overall were pretty balanced between them so that I was only wishing for certain years to come to a close more quickly than others. This time around, with the lows far outweighing the highs, I'm ready for the whole fucking thing to be gone. Hell, no one even knows what to call the last ten years...the 'O's? The Otts? The WTF's? Because I follow events and the news (I just can't help it) my life and my mood tend to get tied in with what's going on out there, and I've pretty much hated just about everything about this decade when it came to politics especially. Sure, Obama won and that was probably the biggest plus event, but he's hardly been able to do anything in his first year and this is with a majority in Congress! But most of the decade was covered by the Bush years which I think will go down as one of the worst presidencies ever recorded in these here United States. People can argue all they want, but what irks me the most is that we've had bad presidents in the past, and they seemed to have to pay for idiocies, but this guy and especially the guy with the hand up his ass seemed to not only have gotten away with it all, but the media is still listening to Darth Vader still for some reason! Nixon resigned in disgrace, though he did get a big fat pardon from Ford. What worries me more is the precedent being set. Palin quit her fucking job as governor of Alaska and yet the media still keeps referring to her as 'possible 2012 candidate Sarah Palin'...would someone please explain to me why she would even be qualified after not only help McCain lose an election bid but then quit her job to go make money on books? I don't get it but the media is NOT all liberal like the right likes to say when the media says something it doesn't want to hear. There's also a very powerful right component to the media and they've learned from advertising that if you say something enough people start to believe it. Getting back to my original comment, I love the 70's, the 80's were okay and the 90's were pretty sweet but this decade has been one big pile of feces. This also goes for my personal life. I moved to Austin technically in the 90's so I can't even say that happened this decade. I got a big house and have made the most money ever but in the end I've got nothing to show for that really. This decade was a big experiment socially and I think in the end it failed if I want to be honest. As with any such times, I think I learned a lot of lessons and for the next while I should focus on those lessons and assimilate them into how I want to live my life going forward. Luckily friends that I made in the awesome 90's stuck around and made it through with me. I'm hoping with all hope that the 00's were the bottom of the barrel and things will only go up from here.