Wind power and solar energy becoming far more viable (partly due to the price of gas going up)
Possible universal health care
standards in education
The price of college becoming unaffordable
The price of homes becoming unaffordable, then a little more affordable
White collar jobs going overseas that won't come back
The Beijing Olympics
Vladimir Putin
The Pope dies and a new one gets elected and at that moment that I waited my life to see I lose cable TV because they made a billing mistake leading me to be undercharged, but rather than correct the mistake unplugged my cable
Space probes get way better
SARS
H1N1
Genetically modified food
For some reason people no longer buy the premise of an 80 year old man surrounding himself with multiple blonde 20 year old supermodels, leading to Marge Simpson being on the cover of Playboy in a move smacking of major desperation in order to get younger viewers, but the FCC does nothing
Ted Kennedy dies after nearly an entire life in the Senate
Michael Jackson dies and somehow Kobe Bryant is on stage at the funeral
A former #1 overall pick goes to jail over killing dogs, gets out and resumes career
Twitter
Kaddafi gives a really long speech at the UN suggesting next people will make up "fish flu"
Somehow Bush beats up John Kerry and Al Gore in 6 debates, but can't pronounce simple words like "cat"
America is largely perceived to be a country that uses torture against people that haven't had trials.
Significant change on the Supreme Court
The 2nd woman in our history makes a run at vice president and loses
A few Roman Catholic priests destroy a lot of credibility of the church in the northeast
Two countries can't agree on whether or not a genocide occurred a hundred years ago
20th anniversary of Berlin Wall falling
Red Sox win TWO World Series and the Yanks win one despite having the highest payroll in baseball the whole time
Topic: The Official "Memories from the Past Decade" thread (Read 2738 times)