The Best of '… on Anything Really' 2011: My Personal Highlights

New Year's Eve seems a great time to reflect on my personal highlights from 2011—at least the ones that got mentioned on the blog, which I am pretty sure most of them did.

And no, not one of them will have anything to do with an earthquake. Although these, with their associated ills, have undoubtedly been the dominant feature of 2011 there is absolutely no sense in which I would describe any of them as a "highlight." And that is absolutely all I am going to say on the subject, because this...