'Tis the season for "top ten" lists.
The Times of London's law blogger selects the weirdest cases of 2009.
Times Watch selects the NYT's worst.
The People's Daily gives us another example of what fascism looks like with its "Top ten economic news stories of 2009"
The top ten most desirable women's bodies (according to other women).
The top ten top ten lists.

The Year in Quotes

"Paying for what you spend is just common sense." Barack Obama

“Now, people when I say that look at me and say, ‘What are you talking about, Joe? You’re telling me we have to go spend money to keep from going bankrupt? The answer is yes, that's what I’m telling you.” Joe Biden

"I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism." Barack Obama

“What good is reading the bill if it’s a thousand pages and you don’t have two days and two lawyers to find out what it means after you read the bill?” John Conyers

"Democrats are an opinionated bunch. You know the other side, they just kind of do what they’re told. Democrats, ya’ll thinkin’ for yourselves." Guess Who BTW, again we hear a man who never set foot in an African-American neighborhood until well into his adult years giving 'em the semi-Ebonics. Oh, what a wonderful thing it must be to join an opinionated bunch.

"[There is] a silent and terrible ghost in the room." Hugo Chavez

“It’s clear we are on the precipice of achievement that’s eluded Congresses, presidents for generations — an achievement that will touch the lives of nearly every American.” Barack Obama. Precipice, indeed!

"This is not a decision that I would have made. I think terrorism isn't just attack, it's anxiety and I think you feel the anxiety and frustration of New Yorkers who took the bullet for the rest of the country." David Paterson

"Bitch!" Chuck Schumer

"Uh, in my capacity as Senator from Minnesota, I object." Al Franken

"Keep ____ing that chicken!" Ernie Anastos

"You lie!" Rep. Joe Wilson

"Yo, Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'll let you finish, but Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time." Kanye West

"You guys said that ... um ... we did it for a show." Falcon Henne

"...hide the decline..." Phil Jones

"Do I seek to have some influence on public policy? Absolutely. Do I seek to represent and champion the middle class in this country and those who aspire to it? Absolutely. And I will." Lou Dobbs

"I was battered, I was bleeding, ..." Rihanna

"The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama's 'death panel ... ." Sarah Palin

"The world does not have so much money to buy more US Treasuries." Zhu Min

"Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels." Kate Moss

"You can achieve your goal if you persistently pursue it." -- Cha Sa-Soon

"I kind of like being a President." Hillary Clinton

"You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not Secretary of State. I am. You ask my opinion. I'll tell you my opinion. I'm not going to channel my husband." Hillary Clinton

"Why? Because I'm a black man in America?" Henry Gates

"We would have said: 'We'll take those three but probably lose the drummer.'" Simon Cowell

"The burqa is not a religious sign; it's a sign of subservience, a sign of debasement." Nicolas Sarkozy

"It was the worst sickening, pit-of-your-stomach, falling-through-the-floor feeling I've ever felt in my life. I knew immediately it was very bad." " Sully Sullenberger

"I knew we weren't taking Tic Tacs." Alex Rodriguez

"During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.” David Letterman

"Of course, we make mistakes left and right," David Letterman

“You don’t trust me?” Claire McCaskill

“If you get hit, we will punch back twice as hard.” Jim Messina

"Everyone has dropped the ball on [Iran sanctions]. The president is smoking pot or something if he thinks that being nice to these guys is going to get him anywhere." Robert Morganthau

"And one thing I'd like to point out is that the system worked." Janet Napolitano
Update: Comment of the year, from mikemcdaniel:

I’ve no doubt that [Secretary Napolitano], in making her lunatic assertion that the system worked, was completely sincere, just as so many of her fellow Obamites are completely sincere. To her way of thinking, the system ensured that no favored victim group or member thereof was in any way inconvenienced, nor was their self esteem bruised by the racist, sexist, genderist white oppressors–probably rural Pennsylvanians–who exist only to do such things. That the system did nothing–at great expense and with substantial feckless personal back slapping–to actually protect the flying public, quite the opposite–is beside the point. Her goals, and the goals of those who share her philosophy, were admirably met, thus the system worked. No doubt the terrorist experienced no inconvenience and suffered no ego bruising whatever during his flying experience up until the moment that, with the dumbest of dumb luck, the detonator failed and he succeeded primarily in barbecuing the family jewels (natural selection?), causing a Dutch film maker to do what the Obamites are congenitally incapable of doing and immediately enact a rational anti-terror policy. As an interesting aside, the involvement of a Dutch film maker conclusively proves that God has an omniscient sense of irony. In a rational administration, Napolitano (Van Jones, Eric Holder, Kenneth Jennings, etc., ad nauseum) would never have been considered for employment, let alone hired. As to whether she’ll find herself under the eternal campaign bus, that’s a toss up. Certainly, she and her fellow Obamites are incapable of feeling shame.

Al Queda funds terrorism with drug money.

Chuck Schumer and the flight attendant. If you're not nice to people like flight attendants, you're not nice. You're a phoney.

Steven F. Hayward on global warming:

Climate change is a genuine phenomenon, and there is a nontrivial risk of major consequences in the future. Yet the hysteria of the global warming campaigners and their monomaniacal advocacy of absurdly expensive curbs on fossil fuel use have led to a political dead end that will become more apparent with the imminent collapse of the Kyoto-Copenhagen process. I have long expected that 20 or so years from now we will look back on the turn-of-the-millennium climate hysteria in the same way we look back now on the population bomb hysteria of the late 1960s and early 1970s--as a phenomenon whose magnitude and effects were vastly overestimated, and whose proposed solutions were wrongheaded and often genuinely evil... .