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2008 will suck because it will mostly be a year of people who don't give a damn about politics deciding to pay attention for a couple hours to some preferred talking head, deciding this makes them informed, and then they will regurgitate whatever they heard, quite vociferously on the assumption that they've attained a state of profound understanding.
Then we'll all vote and everybody will think that a half of the population that doesn't include them is full of morons and they'll all be right.
It is kind of like how every four years people suddenly pretend to care about and understand short track speed skating. Only much more annoying.
2008 will be great because I'm really at a point in my "professional" life where I've reached a good intersection of
1. Making more money than is reasonable.
2. Not having too much work related stress.
3. Time to spend the money in ways that will please me.
4. Youth and health enough to have the energy to use that time.
By the end of 2008 I'll have been in the same job for more than 2 years and from that point on it is downhill as I grow bored with the sameness of going to the same place every day until I find some reason get off the cart and start over somewhere else. And that will be good too.
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