Top 10 Centuries of the Millennium

“With the recent proliferation of boneheaded top-whatever lists of the millennium in every magazine that exists, not to mention the public’s reborn fondness for bongload-enriched list-making (VH1’s The List springs to mind), it seems like the human race is hoping to use a few choice summaries of the last thousand years’ very best in plumbing inventions, polka albums, and baked goods to stitch the meaning of the last thousand years into a nice bite-sized package. Hey, if you’re a student of history and/or have any moral structure whatsoever, I’m sure you feel the way I do: This millennium pretty much sucked, and making a list of its 10,000 best footwear inventions does little to take the edge off the big scary Third One.”