| Most blatantly-shameless advertising shtick: PETA's Trollsen Twins, bashing Ashley and Mary-Kate for being insufficiently sensitive or something. | |
| Best political snark: Joe Biden says of Rudy Giuliani: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence a noun, a verb, and 9/11." | |
| Best political move: Oklahoma County Commissioner Jim Roth jumps to the Corporation Commission, becoming the first gay man in a statewide office while precipitating essentially no controversy. | |
| Worst political move: John Edwards reports his haircuts to the Federal Election Commission at four hundred bucks each. | |
| Best TV event: The strike by members of the Writers Guild of America. | |
| Best automotive remark: Dan Becker, director of the Sierra Club's global-warming programs and occasional auto-industry critic, at the General Motors Dealer of the Year banquet in New York: "GM paid $2 billion to Fiat to go away. I said I'd be willing to do it for half that much." | |
| Worst automotive remark: Car and Driver's 2008 10Best Issue, appearing in December 2007, had a photo of NHTSA Administrator Nicole Nason with the unfortunate caption RILF ALERT. | |
| Top-rated collector's item of 2007: The Hello Kitty AK-47 rifle. | |
| Most elusive Christmas present: A Wii from the Midwestern chain Slackers: they sold all their store stock on eBay at a higher price than Nintendo would have liked. | |
| Strangest photo of 2007: Amy Winehouse isn't exactly picking her nose. Then again, almost any photo of Amy Winehouse is bizarre these days, and there's already an online death watch. | |
| Best album title of the year: "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank" by Modest Mouse. | |
| Least-expected blog development: Ree Drummond, writer/photographer of Confessions of a Pioneer Woman, is interviewed by CNN and turns out to be incredibly freaking gorgeous. | |
| Most-welcome sign of sanity on Usenet: People have (mostly) quit bitching about yEnc. |
Posted 25 December 2007
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