The top searches of 2005

From Ars Technica comes Yahoo's list of top searches for 2005:

The Top Searches of 2005
Although there's still almost two weeks left in the year, Yahoo has closed the books on 2005 and have released the top search terms of 2005. The eight categories presented have one up on the seven deadly sins, and the amount of overlap between them should be seen as evidence for just how far true evil has pervaded the Internet experience. Are you ready for the number one search term of 2005?

You, in back, shuddap! No, it's not Iraq. It's not health care, it's not anything of weighty importance. It's not even Xbox 360. No, dear friends, it's Britney Spears. This, good gentleman and gentleladies, is the American dream: take two parts lackluster talent, three tablespoons of whiney, bitchy crap, add a freeloader for a husband, an ounce of weed, stir in a baby, and you have the most sought-after thing the 'net has to offer. Search me baby, one more time takes the top spot in web searches, the top spot in video searches, but slips to number three behind the buxom Jessica Simpson (#2) and vacuous shell of Paris Hilton (#3) in the images category. It must have been the baby-belly dragging her down. Why look at images of a woman heavy with child when you can look at a woman who you hope to $diety never procreates, but half the world wants to have sex with?

Heh -- to loosely quote Hermann G�ring: "When I hear the word "culture", I reach for my revolver."