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Well, it’s been about a decade since Ben offered up an ever-moving juicy web-hole for us to cram angry anti-Bush statements in, and what a decade it’s been. Wars, wars, wars and depressing political decision after depressing political decision have beaten most of us into some sort of adulthood, and for those already there, into some new kind of middle age.

Looking back over old SB material, I can’t help but feel like the “Aught’s” are a lost decade with little societal progress to speak of. I don’t think easier web access and the ability to “blog” from anywhere on the planet (Iran, I’m looking at you) really counts as anything more than a small evolution. Blogging about horrible atrocities still feels as frustrating as it did ten years ago, maybe more so now as the signal to noise ratio is so bad. I must admit that twitter now fills the obsessive-compulsive need to know what’s going on right now, and it’s easier than the endless surfing I did in 2000. There are more numbers after the names of my gaming consoles, and I have a thin tv big enough to double as a dining room table. Perhaps saying there’s little progress is overly-negative, and what’s astounding to me is the slow pace and appalling cost.

It leaves me wondering what the alternate reality of Gore ’00 would have brought us? Would we have even been attacked in 2001? Without the Iraq/Afghanistan/Pakistan expenditures, how would the collapse of the “housing bubble” turn out? Would we be driving flying cars run by Mr. Fusion and floating around on hoverboards? Only 5 years till Marty and Doc Brown arrive, now I just need to decide on what events I should have gambled on!