8 for '08

HEADING OFF FOR MORE VACATION TIME, BUT HERE’S ONE LAST POST. WILL BE BACK NEXT WEEK:

Here are eight things I’d like to see in 2008:

8) A whole lot less about the worthless lives of Britney, Lindsay, Paris, etc.

7) A report from the National Hurricane Center expressing amazement at the third successive slow season.

6) A confirmed sighting of an ivory-billed woodpecker in the Big Thicket.

5) Barry Bonds standing in a tense courtroom as the jury foreman says, “We find the defendant guilty on all counts.”

4) A deal between the city of Beaumont and its firefighters that both can live with.

3) A World Series that does not involve a team from New York City.

2) A Hillary-Rudy face-off. These are the two best candidates in both parties; let ’em tangle.

1) A report from Baghdad that begins, “The first withdrawal of U.S. troops has begun and is expected to be completed by … ”