Happy New Year 2009

Well, I'd like to wish all of you a happy New Year. 2009 can't be much worse than 2008, can it?

Okay, so we were not about to watch Ryan Seacrest and the sad state of Dick Clark, so we watched New Year's Eve LIVE on CNN, with what turned out to be the painful pairing of Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin. While I like both of them separately, together they were awful. Kathy was over-the-top obnoxious and Anderson was as nervous as a whore in church. Kathy kept talking over him, interrupting him constantly, to the point it wasn't fun. It was painful in places. While he did manage to get in a several bitchy comments, it just didn't work. And speaking of not working, CNN had so many technical difficulties with the switch-offs to other reporters that it makes you wonder how they run a network for their day job.

I think the best thing for the country in 2009 is that Dubya will not be running it after January 20. I have my fingers crossed that Obama does a better job.