The Things that Haven't Happened Yet

As a public service, here is our newly updated list of the remaining things that haven't happened yet:

African-American elected president of United States
Water found on the moon
Peace in Middle East
Joe DiMaggio's consecutive-game hit record broken
World oil supply runs out
Bin Laden captured
Saddam is hanged
Starbucks announces cutbacks
Asteroid hits populated city
Major U.S. city ruined by flood
World Trade Center demolished by terrorists
Pete Rose enters baseball Hall of Fame
A famous ex-football player who kills people
Quantum mechanics reconciled with relativity
Britney Spears photographed without underpants
Time travel becomes possible
Global computer network for sharing pornography
Adam Sandler wins Best Actor
Polar ice caps begin melting
Huge tidal wave smashes 11 countries
Australia completely submerged
Secret identity of "Deep Throat" revealed
A prescription drug to induce erections
National ID cards implemented
Sisters genetically bred to play tennis
A "man" becomes pregnant
Electric cars that actually go
Bestselling memoir that inspires millions is mostly made up
Real mummy comes to life, attacks people
A popular Al Gore movie
Ability to turn invisible
Proof of extraterrestrial life
Respected actor wins top government job in California
Phillies win World Series
A national rating system for public drinking water
Cure for cancer
Robots take over
Chinese Democracy album is released

cross posted at Huffington Post

JFK: A View from Late December Back in '63

It's hard for me to imagine the complete state of shock that gripped the nation -- really the whole world -- when President Kennedy was assassinated 45 years ago today, on November 22, 1963, and then assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was slain two days later on national television. I was an infant at the time. Books have been written about the politics and the conspiracies, but what about the national mood during those weeks of sorrow and uncertainty after the tragedy? What was the average person feeling? My only real point of reference for understanding the aftermath is a song I once heard on the radio, a song that seems to get at some of the emotions Americans were dealing with, late December back in '63. The song takes me back to those days: Americans feeling as if they'd been hit by a rolling bolt of thunder, spinning their heads around, taking their bodies under. People didn't even know the feeling's name, they just knew they were never going to be the same. I wonder a lot of things about that terrible time. I wonder whether Oswald knew it was coming, if he got a funny feeling when he walked into the room? It all happened so fast -- did viewers recall it ended much too soon? And there was a special lady. Hypnotizing, mesmerizing me. She was everything I dreamed she'd be. What a lady. What a night. Looking back, it seemed so wrong, but now it seems so right. And historians can merely ask: why'd it take so long to see the light?

cross posted at 23/6.com and The Old Yorker.

If Music Acts Merged

Santanica
Three Doggy Dog
The Corrs Light Orchestra
Pink’s Floyd
The Kansas Jayhawks
Black Eyed Peas & Korn
R. Kelly Clarkson
Kajagoogoo Dolls
NSYNCUBUS