Rex Murphy, my favorite CBC curmudgeon, has an insightful and funny rant about 2009, "the year that was," and in his excellently verbose opinion, it was a year indeed. It's worth watching to hear Rex ruminate about "the witless zombies" always in the media, the "gruesome comedy" provided by Stephen Harper this year, and the "mega trivialities" and "tacky distractions" our so-called news sources feed us.