Top Geographic News Stories of 2008

• The U.S. elected a president that knows how to read a map Geographers dug a tunnel into the James Library in order to smuggle in beer, wine, and brie on Friday afternoons
• The AAG Convention in Boston was marred by unsightly powerpoints and overly long presentations by established faculty at major universities
• Volcano eruptions, landslides, floods, fires, hurricanes, and droughts continued to be major news events for exactly 4 days before people forgot all about them and returned to discussing the maternal details of Madonna, the chemical habits of Britney, and the effects of the screen writers strike on the mini-baby boom
• Another bumper crop of geography graduate students was planted in the department only to wither away in the darkness of the TA bay
• “Propode” emerged as a leading conservative journal in the field
• Genocide, war, oppression and racism barely got any recognition from anyone because everyone seems to be utterly fascinated by the new version of American Gladiators
• The most common question asked to geographers for the year 2008: “So you must really like rocks huh?”
•The Carrier Glacier shocked the world by not disappearing due to global warming
• Don, Bob, and Evan discovered that geography was very serious business and wiped these smiles off their faces