12-31-07 2008

I read today that people are finally celebrating the new year in public in Baghdad for the first time since the United Stated invaded Iraq. Think about that: people are finally able to do what people in Times Square took for granted. No matter what you think of the war, this is a good sign.

There are places in the world where a new beginning means more than it does in other places: places with war, with poverty, with opression. People take their revelry today mixed with just a little desperation, both here and abroad.

With that sentiment, One Neat Thing a Day gives you your final neat thing of 2007: people greeting the new year…

… in Baghdad:

… in the Philippines:

… in Moscow:

… in Kurdistan:

… in Afghanistan:

 

… in Johannesburg:

… in Brazil:

… and a good one to end this post with, in India:

Happy New Year to you and to everyone. Let’s hope it’s a better one.

Your What the FUCK for 12-31-07

It’s funny what you run across on the Web.  Someon made the perfectly reasonable observation one day that some cats have a cute little mustache that makes them look like Hitler.

The result of this observation? Cats That Look Like Hitler, an entire site dedicated to, well, stuff like this:

Awwwwwww…

Your Cognitive Dissonance for 12-31-07

Lest we forget, before ’007 becomes ’008 (who I believe was stabbed to death by a knife-wielding clown in the opening scenes of Octopussy), your last cognitive dissonance of the year comes from that always-rockin’ cartoonist Tom Tommorow.