by Tracy Kurowski

Hottest and wettest year on record – yet climate change remains on the back burner.

For half the year BP unleashed hundreds of millions of crude oil into the blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico –  helping us forget about the nation’s worst mining disaster in 40 years at Massey Mine.

It took a Herculean effort to reform health care into a well – regulated corporate windfall.

Heroin is still readily available and cheap in the U.S. thanks to our continued war efforts.

But due to science breakthroughs HIV can be killed and synthesized genes can self-replicate

On Bradley Manning’s Reading List:

People’s History of the United States, by Howard Zinn (rest in peace and thanks for your loving  intellectual agitation)

Also, GW Bush’s memoir, Decision Points (may he travel to a country where there’s a warrant for his arrest)

Citizens United ruling – Double speak spoken doubly –1/4 of my Senator’s race was funded by private anonymous donors

A half a billion Iowa eggs were recalled for Salmonella poisoning. Many of those were then re-processed into salad dressings, cookie dough and cake mixes.

The GOP shat on the Dream Act, re-branded it Dream on. Meanwhile, Arizona Governor continues to fry her skin so she can someday be the same color as the people she’s kicking out of her state

Because he’s tired of playing laser tag by himself in one of his empty mega hotels, the Ruling Sheik of Dubai is building an indoor mountain to host the Winter Olympics.

We’re still waiting for those Bank of America leaks, Assange. What’s taking so long?