The year 2000 may have been one of the strangest years in the history of planetary life, but the relentlessly goofy things people insisted on saying made it all bearable. And if George W. Bush is the runaway winner here, well, don't blame it on partisantoriness.
Popularity is history's pocket change.
Courage is history's true currency. As for the past, the past leads to the future. When I was coming up it was a dangerous world and we knew exactly who the they were. It was us versus them, and it was clear who them was. Today, we're not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there.