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I’ve been too busy to develop any meaningful resolutions. Not that I’m particularly good at sticking to them anyway. So this year, I’m going to steal some from Woody Guthrie’s New Years Rulin’s.

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Many of these seem doable (reprint after the jump).  What are your New Year’s resolutions, and if you don’t play that game let us know what you think the most important news story of the year was? Arab Spring? Japanese earthquake/tsunami? Debt ceiling fiasco? Lots to choose from. Or how about the most under covered story of the year?

Woody sez:

1. WORK MORE AND BETTER

2. WORK BY A SCHEDULE

3. WASH TEETH IF ANY

4. SHAVE

5. TAKE BATH

6. EAT GOOD – FRUIT – VEGETABLES – MILK

7. DRINK VERY SCANT IF ANY

8. WRITE A SONG A DAY

9. WEAR CLEAN CLOTHES – LOOK GOOD

10. SHINE SHOES

11. CHANGE SOCKS

12. CHANGE BED CLOTHES OFTEN

13. READ LOTS GOOD BOOKS

14. LISTEN TO RADIO A LOT

15. LEARN PEOPLE BETTER

16. KEEP RANCHO CLEAN

17. DON’T GET LONESOME

18. STAY GLAD

19. KEEP HOPING MACHINE RUNNING

20. DREAM GOOD

21. BANK ALL EXTRA MONEY

22. SAVE DOUGH

23. HAVE COMPANY BUT DON’T WASTE TIME

24. SEND MARY AND KIDS MONEY

25. PLAY AND SING GOOD

26. DANCE BETTER

27. HELP WIN WAR – BEAT FASCISM

28. LOVE MAMA

29. LOVE PAPA

30. LOVE PETE

31. LOVE EVERYBODY

32. MAKE UP YOUR MIND

33. WAKE UP AND FIGHT

Fogiv sez: Stay glad, Moose. Athbhliain faoi Mhaise Daoibh!


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  3. spacemanspiff

    I will continue my moosey tradition of drunk posting when I get home from wherever it is the night/year takes me tonight. Have a good one fam!

  6. dirkster42

    My resolution for the year is to be drunk more in 2012.  I didn’t get drunk nearly enough in 2011, though on July 3, I may have made up for a few missed opportunities.  In any case, getting drunk more is my only resolution.  I wonder if it will be as easy to keep as it sounds.

    The blog “Feminism and Religion” published my A Horrific Bible Story and Why I Read It today.  Although the blog owner liked it, it does not seem to be getting a terribly warm reception.

    Anyway, 2011 was not a year I look back on terribly fondly.  Too much therapy (necessary and helpful, but revisiting stuff I thought I’d already dealt with – twice), not enough work, and no sex (see therapy).  I really hope 2012 is an improvement.  

  9. Peter Jukes

    …the only internet link this bluetooth hook up with my luba’s phone.

    HAPPY NEW YEAR MOOQ!

    I’ll briefly share what Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha said in 1967 is debatable. “This year will be harder than last year. It will, however, be easier than next year.”

    Worth celebrating that.

    Meanwhile, I’ve just discovered that the new Rupert Murdoch account on Twitter is genuine.

    https://twitter.com/#!/rupertm…

    News of this brought the brilliant response from former deputy PM and hacking victim John Prescott

    John Prescott @johnprescott 2h  Reply  Retweeted  Favorite ยท Open

    Welcome to Twitter…@rupertmurdoch. I’ve left you a Happy New Year message on my voicemail!

    This month I should finish the intro to the Murdoch book. Apparently we only need to get to 20 percent funding from family and friends and it’s a cert. We’re currently at 18 percent, so help push us over the finishing line if you can

    http://www.unbound.co.uk/books/bad-press

  10. fogiv

    good: Perry is staying in the race! lulz

    bad: Bachmann is out, which means ‘Politifact’ will probably have to lay off the dozen or more journalists who were assigned to parse her daily lie barfings.

    sad.

  11. fogiv

    http://www.foxnews.com/scitech…

    Other newly created invisibility cloaks fashioned by scientists move the light beams away in the traditional three dimensions. The Cornell team alters not where the light flows but how fast it moves, changing in the dimension of time, not space.

    They tinkered with the speed of beams of light in a way that would make it appear to surveillance cameras or laser security beams that an event, such as an art heist, isn’t happening.

    Another way to think of it is as if scientists edited or erased a split second of history. It’s as if you are watching a movie with a scene inserted that you don’t see or notice. It’s there in the movie, but it’s not something you saw, said study co-author Moti Fridman, a physics researcher at Cornell.

    The scientists created a lens of not just light, but time. Their method splits light, speeding up one part of light and slowing down another. It creates a gap and that gap is where an event is masked.

    “You kind of create a hole in time where an event takes place,” said study co-author Alexander Gaeta, director of Cornell’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics. “You just don’t know that anything ever happened.”

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