Monday, December 31, 2007

The Year in Review Review

Because Mr. Furious can never get enough hatred and harsh judgement...

• Bill Maher compiles his "Dickheads of the Year" in a Rolling Stone photo-essay. Best line? "We had a pretty nice house when this Cat in the Hat of presidents came in and made the mess of all time"

The Beast has a brilliant, hysterical and hard-hitting list of "The 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2007"

• I only did six "Dick of the Week" posts this past year—and certainly not due to lack of Dicks—you can review them here and vote in the comments for who deserves the top spot.

More traditional "Best/Worst" and "Top 10"-style lists...

Peter Travers' Best and Worst Movies of 2007 Of course, I haven't seen any of them (Best or Worst) but I want desperately to see every one of his "Best" picks except "Sweeney Todd" and "I'm Not There."

• Slate.com's Good Riddance 2007 includes the usually excellent Dahlia Lithwick with a disapppointing review of The Bush administration's dumbest legal arguments of the year."

• More of a "Before and After" or "I told you so," here are two columns from the incomparable Charles P. Pierce. The first, when he explains in September why "the enraged Patriots will go undefeated," and the second when he tells you "The Patriots are great. Deal with it." Even if you are sick to death of the Patriots, Pierce is one of the finest sports, political, or just plain writers around. Read.

I'll add more as I find them...

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love the inclusion of "College Republicans" on Maher's list. Also, that picture of Giuliani is fucking terrifying.

Deb said...

It's impossible to pick a D.O.Y. There are just so many good ones on your list, despite its brevity. Well... unless you allow write-in candidates... then I'd have to go with Ann Coulter.

Mr Furious said...

Yeah, astonishing that Coulter never made the cut. Probably because she is so over-the-top batshit crazy, asshole-ish, that I don't even pay attention...

Malkin pinch hit nicely for her this season.