2007 In Review

I’ve been reviewing what Windypundit was all about this year, and it turns out 2007 was the year in which

• I backdated my 2006 year-in-review posting to make it look like I posted at the last minute on New Year’s Eve when I really posted it around 11:15 on January first.
• A mysterious object crashed to earth.
• The Windypundit Media Empire expanded. Slightly.
• The War on Drugs had its single greatest accomplishment.
• I correctly predicted a 24 plot development.
• I tried to analyze what went wrong with the war in Iraq.
• I apparently had some issues about dentistry.
• radio station owners had more integrity than some police departments.
• I thought way too much about the Apollo 11 plaque.
• The Mooninite invasion went public.
• I posted my first modest proposal about the war in the middle east.
• I posted my second modest proposal about the war in the middle east.
• I wisely never posted any more modest proposals for the war in the middle east because I wasn’t accomplishing what I was trying to do.
• I reviewed Barry Cooper’s Never Get Busted Again video.
• I thought way too much about unscrewing light bulbs.
• I proposed some radical ideas for criminal justice reform.
• I wondered if my logo had enough balls.
• My dad got sick.
• the Chinese government censored Windypundit.
• for a brief, shining moment, PageRank 6.
• I released my own clothing line.
• I endorsed a candidate for the office of Attorney General.
• I took some pictures of April in Chicago.
• Idiots called the Virginia Tech victims cowards.
• Lou Dobbs didn’t know what he was talking about.
• The Kathryn Johnston case just kept getting worse.
• I accused the state of Illinois of fibbing to organ doners.
• I got a real surprise on my cell phone.
• I had some additional thoughts about jury duty.
• I explained why “Gas Out Day” wasn’t going to work.
• Minky!
• I wrote about the amazing technology we have at our fingertips.
• I explained why we have copyrights, and why they expire.
• The goverment protected us from having meat that was too safe.
• We were invaded by strange creatures.
• I may have accidentally attracted attention to my blog with a misleading title that implied the blog entry was about Paris Hilton getting screwed.
• A model shoot at the Morton Arboretum had unexpected visitors.
• I took some nice photos in Milwaukee.
• The zero-tolerance folks reached a whole new level of stupidity.
• I planned to review Andrew Keen’s Call of the Amateur but never followed through.
• I took pictures at the Gay Pride parade, with special appearances by Maria Pappas, Rudy Giuliani, Sheriff Tom Dart, Chicago’s biggest car thief, and lots of other people, including these cool ladies on motorcycles.
• I tried my hand at photographing models Nicole and Theresa. 
• Hamas cancelled a children’s show.
• I got rated.
• I suggested a few more prison sentences for President Bush to commute.
• I learned about Scott’s law and then was tried for breaking it.
• We learned that Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff relies on his guts.
• I wrote a parody of how other famous authors might end the Harry Potter series and dozens of people contributed their ideas in the comments.
• Shirley Bassey got the party started.
• Windypundit celebrated its fifth birthday.
• More model photos here and here and here.
• I found out what happened to the defendent I convicted.
• I pointed out a few flaws in an anti-immigration argument.
• I posted about some “evil” lawmaking, including the insincerity of free punishment, the pure greed of profitable punishment, the bullying of piling on, the overuse of license suspension, the unconstitutional license of administrative punishment, and the twisted complexity of DUI.
• Rudy Giuliani explained what freedom really means.
• I discovered a disheartening reminder of the depths of human depravity.
• One of the prosecutors of the case where I was a juror contacted me.
• The TSA tried to spot anxious people at the airport.
• Janet Jackson’s nipple still caused controversy.
• Florida’s Governor Charlie Crist set Richard Paey free.
• Virginia Postrel was diagnosed with breast cancer.
• I switched the blog to MovableType 4.
• I committed journalism.
• The Chicago marathon gave us all a preview of how the city would handle a terrorist attack.
• Ann coulter explained the true meaning of Christianity.
• I took 800 photos of the 2007 Chicago marathon.
• I started my scattershot posts, mostly to get something posted without having to write it.
• I tried to analyze the economics of snitching and got a little help getting it right.
• I wrote a little about my father’s experiences in the army.
• I hoped for a revolution.
• I realized our court system does not protect our happiness.
• Windypundit‘s traffic increased for mysterious reasons.
• Congress and President Bush outlawed the light bulb.
• Mike Huckabee didn’t know he was an ape.
• I gave my readers some Christmas cheesecake.
• I was so late posting my year-end round-up that I didn’t even bother to pretend I’d posted it in 2007.

As with last year, Dave Barry’s roundup was funnier.