In six words, how would you describe 2011?
Posted at 5:00 AM on December 29, 2011
by Eric Ringham
(85 Comments)
Filed under: Culture
We're just two days from the end of 2011. Today's Question: In six words, how would you describe 2011?
(Inspired by SMITH Magazine's Six-Word Memoir project and book series .)
Comments (85)
Grow more hemp, hemp hemp hurrah!
Rich get elevator, others get shaft.
Some people just can't follow directions.
Obama is good, but he is a friend of the lazy rather than the poor. He might have tried to be the best friend of the poor. But his policies to help out people who do not want to work and claim what they have not earned is damaging the country's economy.
Occupy protesters are lazy people. Underminers of American dream. Labor unions should be rid of because they don't help for the the country's economy.
I became convinced our civilization's doomed.
Sooner, not later, sad to say.
If the apocolypse doesn't get us,
climate change will do us in.
Begin saying farewell to humanity.
Occupy Together, Occupy Everywhere, Occupy Heart-Mind!
The best plant's still not legal.
could'a been worse, can't complain.
Commenters are idiots, yes I am!
Empty nest, middle-aged love: Paradise
Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!
What the hell happened over here?
Winds of change can feel strange
Well, it's all downhill from here.
Totally outrageous opportunities to make money
broke like a joke and snoring
Preposterous opinions never cease to amaze.
I don't pay taxes - I'm rich!
Better above ground than below ground
Elizabeth, liz, izzy, beth, betty, bet
Recession is over? Depression gains foothold!
first year of the ninety-nine percent
death of dictators, rise of protesters
old, oppressions, fall,
new, revelations, arise
funeral,alone,unemployed years,fired again
Un-yielding political party holds nation hostage
The worst year I've ever had.
Glad I learned these lessons early.
Toddler in daycare. I am sick.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Wave, Protest, War, Greed: Hope Persists
Government and economic quagmires, social protests
Despair? So 2010. We ROSE UP!
Politics and media - bread and circuses
MPR listeners can't count to six.
Climate Change, political stunts, slight gains.
Zionists controlled media, banks, and politicians
Quit complaining and blaming. Embraced grace.
American business has two trillion dollars!
employed, healthy, loving family, great experiences
The year of the Packers.
We are out of Iraq!
Just could not end quickly enough.
Republicans equals rich, what about the rest?
Congressional plutocrats take ball, go home.
Love, marriage, baby carriage? (Well... almost!)
"We" are in this together!
Politicians run amuck,
unemployed outta luck
2011...Learned we are having another baby!
no Osama, Jobs; yes tsunami, Kepler 22-b
Suffering the Consequences - Hairball in Congress
Working, re-tooling, opportunistic, in-shape, optimistic, winning
Republicans obstructed, Europe teetered, weather ravaged.
politicians, embarrassing
elections, scary
choices, none
A few...
I'm still breathing; 2012 be better!
Closing time...you can't stay here.
More bickering, the show goes on.
Faultless leader languishes on Hawaiian beach
Double mastectomy, chemo, baldness, radiation...resurection
allowed to retire before laidoff, whew!
Wish we had an Arab Spring.
American police state sweeps into place
Thank you Obama for getting Osama.
Ron Paul hope for the future
Hypocritical plutocratic republicans destroyed the nation!
The new growth is flat. Proschai!
Zionist agenda, no criminal banksters jailed
Sadness, loss, grief. No silver lining.
The year America's failure became visible.
goodbye Bro, layoff, turned 60, challenging
Rich encounter turbulence; poor not belted
Economy getting stronger, despite political gridlock.
Osama bin Laden: We'll never forget.
Rich get richer, everyone else poorer.
Dayton -Keep spending other people's money
Realizing big government is not sustainable.
Koch in tryst equals family values
Deployed. Fell in love with Ryan.
Basic synopsis of my year, at least!
The summer fried, then fall occupied
Departing too rapidly, many shining memories.
"The rent is too damn high" ;^)
shameful anti-gay amendment brought by Republicans
A year between 2010 and 2012
A year between 2010 and 2012
Wet then dry, oh my!
Obama -punish success, reward failure
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