Like we need more of these - some "Best and Worst of 2004" lists!

Best Albums:

1. Clutch - Blast Tyrant
2. Sam Roberts - We Were Born in a Flame (actually released late 2003)
3. Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
4. Modest Mouse - Good News for those who Love Bad News
5. Tomohawk - Mit Gas (another late 2003 release)

Best TV Shows (only 3 even worth mentioning):

1. Now with Bill Moyers
2. Lost
3. PBS Newshour

Worst Political Fuck-ups:

1. Kerry somehow losing to Bush (and especially not opposing the Swift Boat attacks more effectively)
2. Bush admin oks torture for "detainees" (the long-term negative effects of this here and around the country will be felt for decades)
3. Bush post-war Iraq planning and execution - this fiasco will now probably last decades and costs hundreds of thousands of lives because of the Bush admin's poor or lack of reconstruction planning
4. Bush in the first debate (would have been #1 but since he got re-elected I moved it down)
5. 60 Minutes airing of falsified Bush National Guard records (this tacitly gave the ok for all conservative and even centrist citizens to completely disregard all future scandals involving Bush as nothing more than liberal propaganda