W. Bruce Cameron: My Retrospective on 2011

It’s a good time to look back on 2011 — much better than it would have been last January, anyway.

2011 was remarkable because it was the first year in the last decade where Britney Spears was not one of the top 10 searches on Yahoo. She fell to 13th, which probably is why California radio preacher Harold Camping predicted the world would end on May 21st. If people have so much ennui they can’t be bothered to check in to see who Britney is marrying, surely it is a sign of the end of times.

Actually, the world almost did end on May 21st, but at the last moment, the legislature was unable to reco...