Joel Stein
It's not that we thought things were fine. It's just that this year there were no fixes to the messes we made--no underwater oil-well caps, no AIG bailouts, no reuniting the island castaways in a church and sending them to heaven. We had to idly watch things completely fall apart, making us feel so pathetic that planking seemed like a cool thing to do. This was the year of the meltdown. It was a year in which everything seemed to be going according to plan, and then Pippa Middleton turned around and there was no way to get people to pay...
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