Friday Fish Wrap: Happy 2010 !

I’m happy to have ended the decade with laughter. We just went to see ‘It’s Complicated’ this afternoon. I highly recommend it, especially for those of us who have been on DivorceLand ride. Meryl Streep, Alec Baldwin and Steve Martin all demonstrate why they are three of the decades favorite celebrities - and give us a tour de force smack down on the complexities and laughs to be derived from splitting up.

Once you stop crying.

The Pew Research Center for People and the Press has offered some interesting poll results about how we view this first decade of the millenium. As a whole, we think it sucked.

No! Do you think?

Young, old, Democrat, Republican - ‘sucked’ pretty much defined our take on most of the last ten years. And why not, after all. It started out badly with a stolen election and eight years of a simple bastard in the White House, being led by an evil prick.

Whoops. Was that too forceful?

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Where Do You Stand Politically ... and what does that say about you?

The Pew Research Center has a fascinating series of quizzes that tell you where you stand in “Beyond Red vs Blue”. Just complete the questions and your scores are not only evaluated but then you can look at a number of issues and see just how you fit in with the rest of America.

http://typology.people-press.org/typology/

Take the test and do explore the other interactive areas. I can assure you, it’s all informative and could, if we’re lucky, bring us closer together as a society and help wean us off this strict political polarization that is corrosive, destructive and artificial …. created by spinmeisters and lobbyists to divvy up the spoils.

Maven