When you're a child, a single summer seems to last forever. Now, decades seem to fly past me in the same amount of time it took to live a year. What's with that?

I just finished writing a 4,200-word retrospective on "the Aughts" — the name most of us media types are giving the past 10 years. We got into some fierce debates in the newsroom about the best CDs, TV shows and movies of the past 10 years. And it made me want to hear what you all have to say.

First, let me just say that any list of th...