Memories

The Times’ “110 Things NYers Talked About” List: An Addendum

Today, The New York Times published the 110 Things that New Yorkers Talked About in 2010—everything from the iPad and DADT to Justin Bieber and Lady Gaga’s meat dress.

The Observer had a few additions.

  1. The Winter Olympics in Vancouver
  2. The continuation of the war in Afghanistan
  3. The continuation of the war in Iraq
  4. The official end of the combat mission in Iraq
  5. The ongoing insurgency in Iraq
  6. The election in Iraq
  7. The nine months of turmoil over the failure to form a new government in Iraq
  8. Wikileaks publishes the “Collateral War” video
  9. Wikileaks publishes the “Iraq War Diaries”
  10. The routing of the Taliban in the south of Afghanistan
  11. The reemergence of the Taliban in the north
  12. The death of Richard Holbrooke
  13. Wikileaks publishes the “Afghan War Diaries”
  14. The firing of Gen. Stanley McCrystal
  15. The firing of Shirley Sherrod
  16. The firing of Rick Sanchez
  17. The firing of Juan Williams
  18. The non-firing of Keith Olbermann
  19. The Toyota recall due to faulty gas pedals
  20. The Toyota recall due to faulty floor mats
  21. The Toyota recall due to bad drivers and/or outright fraud
  22. The debt crisis in Greece
  23. The Haitian earthquake 
  24. Donating by text to Haitian relief
  25. Something like 250,000 dead in Haiti
  26. The Tsunami that was going to hit Florida but didn’t
  27. Americans kidnapping Haitian kids
  28. Approximately one million homeless in Haiti
  29. Pat Robertson says it’s all retribution for pact with devil
  30. The slow pace of the recovery in Haiti
  31. The cholera epidemic in Haiti
  32. The debt crisis in Ireland
  33. The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon
  34. The subsequent discovery of the oil leak in the Gulf
  35. The estimate of 1,000 barrels of oil a day leaking into the Gulf
  36. The revision of the estimate to 5,000, then 12,000, then “up to 25,000,” “between 35,000 and 65,000,” and finally to as much as 100,000
  37. The attempt to close the blowout preventer valves
  38. The “top kill”
  39. Kevin Costner? 
  40. The “top hat”
  41. The “junk shot”
  42. Maybe we just nuke the fucker
  43. The pictures of oil-covered animals…
  44. The containment booms, hair 
  45. The angry shrimpers
  46. The oil disappears
  47. The oil-spill Pulitzer battle begins
  48. Spain wins the World Cup
  49. The Palestinian aid flotilla
  50. The rebirth of the Mideast peace process
  51. The failure of the Mideast peace process
  52. Eyjafjallajokull
  53. Don’t tread on me
  54. Don’t touch my junk
  55. Scott Brown’s junk
  56. Christine O’Donnell’s junk 
  57. Riots in France
  58. Also England
  59. Greece
  60. Italy
  61. Russia
  62. Anna Chapman
  63. Elena Kagan
  64. The floods in Pakistan, as many as 2000 dead
  65. The lack of attention to the floods in Pakistan
  66. Pope Benedict endorses condoms
  67. Pat Robertson endorses weed
  68. Miley Cyrus endorses Salvia
  69. The death of Ted Kennedy
  70. The passage of health care reform
  71. Otherwise known as the government takeover of health care
  72. The two dozen federal lawsuits against the individual mandate
  73. The ruling upholding the mandate
  74. The ruling striking down the mandate
  75. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
  76. Restoring honor
  77. Restoring sanity
  78. Restoring fear
  79. The debt crisis in Portugal
  80. The deadly stampede in Germany
  81. The deadly stampede in Cambodia
  82. LeBron
  83. The midterm election
  84. The Democrats’ “shellacking”
  85. The Thai Color Wars, which we still don’t understand
  86. The 29 miners killed in a mine explosion in West Virginia
  87. The 33 miners trapped after a mine explosion in Chile
  88. The 33 miners rescued from the Chilean mine
  89. The 26 miners who died in China the same week
  90. The thousands of Chinese miners who die every year
  91. The 29 miners who perished in a New Zealand mine explosion the next month
  92. The debt crisis in Spain
  93. The debt crisis in Europe
  94. The debt crisis in America
  95. Charlie Rangel’s censure
  96. The North Korea shelling of Yeonpyeong
  97. Unemployment drops to 9.7 percent
  98. Unemployment rises to 9.9 percent
  99. The media is hiring!
  100. Unemployment drops to 9.6 percent
  101. Unemployment rises to 9.8 percent
  102. The Times Square bomb plot
  103. The printer cartridges bomb plot
  104. The Christmas tree bomb plot
  105. The Goldman Sachs SEC investigation
  106. The deaths of Barbara Billingsly, Tom Bosley (i.e., motherhood, fatherhood)
  107. The FBI raid on three hedge funds
  108. The foreclosure crisis
  109. The Heatpocalypse
  110. The Snowpocalypse