Back in 2000, the poster boy for cheating husbands was Bill Clinton. He's since been joined by John Edwards, Elliott Spitzer, Mark Sanders, and the king of cheaters, Tiger Woods who apparently scored more "holes in one" than any golfer in history.
The feds prosecuted that big time "criminal" Martha Stewart for lying about a petty stock deal. Too bad they weren't paying attention to the real criminals on Wall Street.
Debit cards replaced credit cards. Saying "I bought this at Target or Wal-Mart" became cooler than saying "I bought this at Saks or Bergdorf's."
Hurricane Katrina became the largest natural catastrophe to hit our nation and one of our biggest shames. Four and half years latter, nearly 6500 people (many of them elderly) live in abandoned buildings in the Greater New Orleans area.
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n an historic election, we the people elected an African-American President and we had a Vice-Presidential candidate who looked great in short skirts and three inch heels and didn't have to wear them in a closet.
CDs went the way of 45 RPMs and cassettes. We also have a lot fewer newspapers and magazines than when the decade started. And who would have guessed
Survivor would still be around and spawning off all matter of reality TV? Just when we think it can't get worse, along comes
Jersey Shore.
We've learned to TiVO and DVR (just in case we miss a reality show episode) which thank goodness is lots easier than our old VCRs ever were. And how did we ever live without WiFi? Makes you wonder where technology will take us in the next 10 years. But one thing's for sure; like time, it's not standing still.
So Father Time, we're definitely a lot less innocent, though not necessarily wiser, than when we started off this decade. But maybe, just maybe, if we take a deep breath, slow down, and think about the things that are really important in life, and spend more of our precious time on those things, then maybe, just maybe, time will slow down just a tad and we'll all be a little better for it.
Here's wishing all you tomatoes a 2010 that brings joy to your heart and maybe a little money back into your pocketbooks too. And don't blink. It will be 2020.
Dear Father Time, could you please slow it down a little?
When we entered the millennium, terrorism was something that happened elsewhere. The "War on Terror" had not been declared, and the New York City skyline looked considerably different. 
In the past decade the former nouns, "text" and "friend" became verbs, as in texting, friending, and unfriending.
Bad Boys 
We welcomed in the millennium with Dick Clark. And darn if he's not still helping us welcome in 2010. But honestly, we'd prefer to remember the Dick of Christmas past. 
