2005 in Review

James Lileks is a favorite writer and blogger of mine, and he's written his review of 2005. Here are just a couple of highlights:

Pope John Paul II dies. To the horror of many, his successor turns out to be Catholic.

Gitmo torture tales surface again in May, as Newsweek claims that a Koran was flushed down a toilet. The story is later retracted. Did no one at Newsweek consider the difficulty of flushing a book down a commode? Probably its elitist reporters and editors have Mexican housekeepers who do all their flushing for them.

As usual, it's good. Here's the rest.