The Year is 2026

[rpannier]

You have been magically transported (or thawed out from your cryogenic sleep) to the year 2026. You turn on the tv and see seven stories covered on the news that make you smile/laugh. Which one would make you smile the widest and/or laugh the loudest?

[cantstandbush]

1. We don't make it to 2026. 2012 is it!! n/t

[soothsayer]

2. o those rascally Mayans and their time lords!

Maybe we all get new calendars then.

[shenmue]

3. Tough choices...

I was going to say ordaining women, because that'll take centuries to happen, but I picked Limbo because he and his followers are going to snap someday, and soon.

[rpannier]

5. I forgot to list one too

I forgot to put:

This is the 18th anniversary of the admission by late evangelist minister Fred Phelps that he really was a homosexual. He apologized on his deathbed for all "terrible shame and harm he caused so many people."

[shenmue]

6. Good one...

:7

[RebelOne]

4. In 20 years from now, all the above will probably be dead.

[WildEyedLiberal]

10. John Edwards?

I hope he isn't dead in 20 years! Poor guy. He'd only be something like 72.

[Ready4Change]

7. Oil prices reached a 50 year low today due to continued lower demand.

Near universal use of biodiesel producing algae farms, along with the conversion of rooftops to solar arrays and implementation of wind farms, has reduced the global reliance on polluting fossil fuels to a mere trickle, and driven the price of a barrel of crude through the floor.

[rpannier]

8. That's a good one

I like yours better than most of mine.
Good thought.

[Neil Lisst]

9. Funny you should pick 2026. Here's a cartoon I did on 2026 & Bush.

[rpannier]

12. Excellent

I like it a lot.
Thanks.

[Neil Lisst]

13. same theme as one of your answers, although your justice is faster

[WildEyedLiberal]

11. I picked "ordination of women"

Because:

A) I'm Catholic;

B) It would be an amazing step forward for global recognition of women's equality and would especially help women's rights in Catholic third-world countries like Africa and Southeast Asia;

C) If the Catholic Church started truly preaching the social justice and truth of Jesus (one of the most important liberal philosophers of all time), the world would be a MUCH better place. Imagine the support of a religion of one billion people for such things as equality, human rights, and an end to war, poverty, and disease.