The year 2011, still ongoing at time of writing, has been dubbed 'the Year of the ASB' on AH.com for a collection of unlikely events that would have been greeted with derisive laughter if they had been suggested six months before. These include:

• The Arab Revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt etc and NATO intervention in Libya, all triggered by one man upset because he wasn't allowed to sell fruit.
• Americans actually getting out and protesting for workers' rights in Wisconsin.
• Osama Bin Laden successfully killed by Americans. Republicans praise Barack Obama.
• The Canadian election led to the NDP overtaking the Liberals to become the Official Opposition and the Bloc Quebecois was almost destroyed.
• Spontaneous youth riots across England for basically no reason.

It seems likely that more will be added as the year goes on.