The ESC 2008 Year In Review

Dumbest Protests of 2008

• And Tango Makes Three teaches kids that same-sex adoption is okay
• Barbie goes evil and slutty
• Starbucks shows us a slutty mermaid
• Rachel Ray is a terrorist supporter
• McDonald’s is totally gay
• Swanson Broth is the soup lesbians prefer

Dumbest Things Guys Said in 2008:

• "I am firmly behind the skirts."
  
• "I hate Happy Holidays!"
  
• The election provided lots of dumb quotes from John McCain.
• "When do we finally get to meet this Jezebel? At their wedding?"
• Our friend Raz brought us a special dumb guy report from the field.
  
• "Janet has no family. Perfect."
• "The other folks are voting."

Biggest Douchebags of 2008:

• Mike Huckabee for well, lots of reasons.
• John Gibson for his horrible offensive comments following Heath Ledger’s death.
• Michael Savage for calling children with Autism "morons" and even worse "girls".
• Bill O'Reilly for being... Bill O'Reilly. 
• Sarah Palin (do we need to explain this one?)

Lamest “Scandals” of 2008:

• Diablo Cody gets naked.
• Miley Cyrus doesn't get naked.
• The original Lesbians sue those other lesbians
• Cardboardgate!!

Greatest Accomplishments of 2008:

• We fooled you all with our "Legal Troubles" prank
• We launched The Good Authority
• California goes gay! (well, it was an accomplishment at the time, sigh)
• Connecticut goes gay!
• New York goes gay-ish.
• Bitch magazine is saved (for now)!
• BARACK OBAMA!!! YES!

Worst Let Downs of 2008:

• Rock of Love 2 did not threaten us with a good time.
  
• We learn that love at first sight doesn't always work out.
• Despite some awesome political satire, SNL still sucks.
• Prop 8 actually passed. Unfuckingbelievable!
• It's not even safe to go holiday shopping anymore.
• George W. Bush keeps on sucking right until the end.

Our Most Popular Posts of 2008:

• UnMommy: UnFair and UnCool? (According to our statcounter, this one got a ton of hits from the UnMommies themselves. Apparently they were very UnHappy with this blog entry).
• The Joe Biden Feminism Watch
• Sarah Palin: Not a Feminist
• Ana Mendieta (and the rest of Chiquita's awesome art series)
• Adam and Jezebel's Viagra/Birth Control debate
• Honorable Mention (not written in 2008 but still incredibly popular in 2008): 10 Things You Might Not Know About Gardasil and 10 More Things You Might Not Know About Gardasil (It's almost like maybe we should write a follow up on Gardasil in 2009. Hmmm....)

Our Favorite Posts of 2008:

• Blog for Choice 2008
• The Rudy Giuliani Drinking Game
• SLUT
• The entire month of March: Women's History Month
• The ongoing Awareness series over at I Read While He Plays Video Games
• Did we mention Chiquita's awesome art series?
• Evil Sluts & The International Women's Writing Guild
  

2008 has been really great for us... and we're sure 2009 will be even better! See you next year!