"I've been a racist since 1921..."

The year 2010 has long since disappeared from the review mirror, but I just came across this nice, cynically whimsical essay on 2010 from George Will. Among the revelations is that in 2010, it was revealed that Mussolini was hurt by people saying he copied Hitler. This caused him to protest to his mistress that he had been a racist since 1921 and he didn't understand how anyone could think he was imitating Hitler!

Take a moment to read the whole article here. Some of my favorites:

“I still can’t believe they took our yogurt,” said a staffer at Rawesome Foods in Venice, Calif., when crime-busting L.A. County officers with drawn guns descended on the health-food store in search of … unpasteurized dairy products. Elsewhere, TSA airport personnel exemplified government’s hands-on concern for our safety. In Quincy, Ill., police twice arrested a man who, by offering free rides to intoxicated persons, committed the crime of operating a taxi service without the government’s permission.

In Ottawa, the sensitivity police in a children’s soccer league announced that any team attaining a five-goal lead would be declared to have lost, thereby sparing the feelings of those who were, if you will pardon the expression, losing.