I just made a thread in the hip-hop section about 2000s underground rap (Immortal Technique, Jedi Mind Tricks, etc), so now I'm feeling a bit nostalgic about that decade. Horrible mainstream rap, but great underground rap. That being said, it was a weird, gaudy, kinda disgusting decade....

9/11
The Great Recession
Bush (not evil, just stupid)
Hurricane Katrina
School shootings and mall shootings every other week (Virginia Tech, Amish school massacre)
D.C. sniper attacks (dude turned out to be a Nation of Islam member quoting Killarmy lyrics)
Pluto no longer the 9th planet from the Sun (???)
Darfur
War on Terror

But oh God, the fashion and hairstyles were the worst. Men wore pink Abercrombie shirts with the collars up, Native American bead necklaces, boot cut jeans, etc. Women wore low rise jeans, velvet sweatpants with "Juicy" written on the ass, Ugg boots, etc. It was a disaster all around.