The Practical Buddhist Presents:
MSNBC is reputable, if slightly left-leaning. Sorry Rachel. I think we can trust their survey of the most popular stories of 2011.
Before you look, take a guess. Yes, Casey made the top five. Why? She is prodigiously unattractive, self-absorbed, and barely escaped conviction for killing her child. Why does she fascinate so many? For that matter, why is the death of Osama the runaway leader, over the Japanese earthquake or the Arab Spring?
ResultsTotal of 30,794 votes
| Death of Osama bin Laden | 38.2% (11,766 votes) |
| Japan earthquake/nuclear crisis | 26.9% (8,282 votes) |
| World economic crisis | 10% (3,076 votes) |
| Arab Spring protests | 6.4% (1,973 votes) |
| The trial of Casey Anthony | 4.8% (1,491 votes) |
| Occupy Wall Street | 3.4% (1,043 votes) |
| US troops withdraw from Iraq | 2.9% (880 votes) |
| Penn State sex abuse scandal | 2.4% (747 votes) |
| Death of Steve Jobs | 1.7% (521 votes) |
| None of the above; see my entry below | 1.4% (418 votes) |
| The shooting of Gabrielle Giffords | 1.3% (408 votes) |
| GOP presidential race | 0.6% (189 votes) |
