Don’t let the door hit ya where the good lord split ya, 2022! A lot happened during the year, and in any other year, stories like the assault of the Speaker of the House’s spouse, a megalomaniacal billionaire impulse-purchasing a major social media platform (and subsequently destroying it), or the death of England’s longest-serving monarch would be some of the top stories.
But this year, they didn’t even make the cut to the top 10. Others that fell below the fold: the cryptocurrency debacle; Iran’s women’s rights demonstrations; the ongoing climate crisis, particularly in the American west due to lower water levels in the Colorado River; billion-dollar legal decisions against Alex Jones; Nancy Pelosi’s resignation as Speaker; and the space exploration advancements led by the James Webb Space Telescope and the Orion program. And way outside NatZero’s sweet spot are the sports and celebrity news, like the Britney Griner detainment, Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, or the deaths of a lot of people and the (ex-) Pope.
Taunting the Gods of the Trite and the Tired, here’s my list of the Top 10 stories of 2022 and–spoiler alert!–Hunter Biden’s laptop is not one of them. And to the chagrin of Fox acolytes, neither is the “ongoing immigration crisis at the Southern border” they tout… because these are actually important stories.
10. The Continuing Pandemic: How fucked up does a year have to be when more than a quarter million Americans die in one year from a pandemic virus and it isn’t the top story? Omicron swept the world, and researchers developed a series of vaccines adapted to counter the threat. But insolent conservatives continued to resist the march of science, resulting in Republicans being 76% more likely to die from coronavirus, leading more credence to Darwinism.
