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.
- The Winter Olympics in Vancouver
- The continuation of the war in Afghanistan
- The continuation of the war in Iraq
- The official end of the combat mission in Iraq
- The ongoing insurgency in Iraq
- The election in Iraq
- The nine months of turmoil over the failure to form a new government in Iraq
- Wikileaks publishes the “Collateral War” video
- Wikileaks publishes the “Iraq War Diaries”
- The routing of the Taliban in the south of Afghanistan
- The reemergence of the Taliban in the north
- The death of Richard Holbrooke
- Wikileaks publishes the “Afghan War Diaries”
- The firing of Gen. Stanley McCrystal
- The firing of Shirley Sherrod
- The firing of Rick Sanchez
- The firing of Juan Williams
- The non-firing of Keith Olbermann
- The Toyota recall due to faulty gas pedals
- The Toyota recall due to faulty floor mats
- The Toyota recall due to bad drivers and/or outright fraud
- The debt crisis in Greece
- The Haitian earthquake
- Donating by text to Haitian relief
- Something like 250,000 dead in Haiti
- The Tsunami that was going to hit Florida but didn’t
- Americans kidnapping Haitian kids
- Approximately one million homeless in Haiti
- Pat Robertson says it’s all retribution for pact with devil
- The slow pace of the recovery in Haiti
- The cholera epidemic in Haiti
- The debt crisis in Ireland
- The explosion of the Deepwater Horizon
- The subsequent discovery of the oil leak in the Gulf
- The estimate of 1,000 barrels of oil a day leaking into the Gulf
- 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
- The attempt to close the blowout preventer valves
- The “top kill”
- Kevin Costner?
- The “top hat”
- The “junk shot”
- Maybe we just nuke the fucker
- The pictures of oil-covered animals…
- The containment booms, hair
- The angry shrimpers
- The oil disappears
- The oil-spill Pulitzer battle begins
- Spain wins the World Cup
- The Palestinian aid flotilla
- The rebirth of the Mideast peace process
- The failure of the Mideast peace process
- Eyjafjallajokull
- Don’t tread on me
- Don’t touch my junk
- Scott Brown’s junk
- Christine O’Donnell’s junk
- Riots in France
- Also England
- Greece
- Italy
- Russia
- Anna Chapman
- Elena Kagan
- The floods in Pakistan, as many as 2000 dead
- The lack of attention to the floods in Pakistan
- Pope Benedict endorses condoms
- Pat Robertson endorses weed
- Miley Cyrus endorses Salvia
- The death of Ted Kennedy
- The passage of health care reform
- Otherwise known as the government takeover of health care
- The two dozen federal lawsuits against the individual mandate
- The ruling upholding the mandate
- The ruling striking down the mandate
- The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act
- Restoring honor
- Restoring sanity
- Restoring fear
- The debt crisis in Portugal
- The deadly stampede in Germany
- The deadly stampede in Cambodia
- LeBron
- The midterm election
- The Democrats’ “shellacking”
- The Thai Color Wars, which we still don’t understand
- The 29 miners killed in a mine explosion in West Virginia
- The 33 miners trapped after a mine explosion in Chile
- The 33 miners rescued from the Chilean mine
- The 26 miners who died in China the same week
- The thousands of Chinese miners who die every year
- The 29 miners who perished in a New Zealand mine explosion the next month
- The debt crisis in Spain
- The debt crisis in Europe
- The debt crisis in America
- Charlie Rangel’s censure
- The North Korea shelling of Yeonpyeong
- Unemployment drops to 9.7 percent
- Unemployment rises to 9.9 percent
- The media is hiring!
- Unemployment drops to 9.6 percent
- Unemployment rises to 9.8 percent
- The Times Square bomb plot
- The printer cartridges bomb plot
- The Christmas tree bomb plot
- The Goldman Sachs SEC investigation
- The deaths of Barbara Billingsly, Tom Bosley (i.e., motherhood, fatherhood)
- The FBI raid on three hedge funds
- The foreclosure crisis
- The Heatpocalypse
- The Snowpocalypse