Where We've Been: Best 2006

Now that 2006 has finally come and gone it is time for us to take stock of the past year and what we left behind. Not through any of our own opinions, of course, or barely through our own opinions but more through those that others force upon us.

Pictures frequently capture the spirit of the year. Pictures are a difficult medium inflicting more immediate emotions than perhaps rational thought; letting interpretation of the viewer gauge the moment rather than rationality. Still, here are the top pictures of 2006.

There is, in many ways, too much news that exists in the world. Here are the top ten news stories that seemed to have slipped through the cracks.

The human body, when trained and tuned for excellence, has no peer. To run a sub four minute mile, to launch and seperate from the earth and over a bar of an impossible height, to rise above a game and those that have played it before and hold the world in your hand. The top pictures of the year in sports.

Every year we lose more and more opinion cartoonists as our papers lose more and more opinion pages. Papers like the St. Paul Pioneer Press that reduce their Opinion pages to the local section and replace their Opinion with the latest celebrity news should be branded as the local trash that they are. And then they wonder why the printed press fails. Here are the top political cartoons of the past year.

Bad Mother Coitus's Albums of the Year!!!

as dictated by mule

3. The Greatest by Cat Power

2. Show Your Bones by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs

1. Boys + Girls in America by The Hold Steady

Albums that I wished i would've listened to but have not listened to yet:

Alright Still by Lily Allen

Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor by Lupe Fiasco

And

The Correct Bestest Movies of the Year!!!

4. The Departed

3. Thank You for Smoking

2. A Scanner Darkly

1. Casino Royale

Movies that I wished I would've watched but have not yet viewed:

Little Miss Sunshine

This Film is Not Yet Rated

Death of a President

And one more time. For your reading pleasure. The best website that we read all year. The Legend... of the Blood Ninja...