We had a rough year 2006. 狗年，天狗當道，諸事不順。

更糟的是無能又無恥的政治人物，讓我們原本就夠辛苦的生活更艱難。光是一個三隻小豬杜正勝，就可以讓許多學生和家長添了許多煩惱：作文、公民、成語......。在狗年的最後，李登輝說他從來沒有主張過台獨，陳水扁來個正名大行動，馬英九則是被以貪污罪起訴。

願豬年真的大家諸事大吉。

在過去的一年許多人離開了人世，除了我們的親朋好友之外，另有許多值得我們紀念或思考的......

2006.01.06 編舞家伍國柱因急性骨髓性白血病，併發肺炎過世，得年36歲。

2006.02.20 香港資深演員董驃，因肺部纖維化過世，享年72歲。

2006.03.12 前南斯拉夫聯邦總統米羅塞維奇過世，得年64歲。羈押所在地的警衛發現他在床上無聲無息，隨即通知醫官，醫官證實他已經死亡。其被控1990年代涉及在克羅埃西亞、波士尼亞和科索沃犯下戰爭罪行，4年前聯合國成立「前南斯拉夫國際刑事法庭」，以66項罪名起訴米羅塞維奇。

2006.03.24 舞蹈家羅曼菲清晨四時許仍因肺癌復發，合併腦脊髓液轉移，病逝於和信治癌中心醫院，得年51歲。

2006.05.10 大同集團總裁林挺生因腎衰竭在家中過世，享年88歲。

2006.05.23 國華人壽前董事長翁一銘因為心肌梗塞突然過世。

2006.05.30 日本名導今村昌平因肝癌病逝於東京澀谷醫院，享年79歲。他曾以【楢山節考】和【鰻魚】兩部電影，兩度奪得坎城金棕櫚獎的殊榮。

2006.06.07 作家琦君（潘希珍）凌晨4時45分因肺炎在和信醫院去世，享年90歲。

2006.09.04 鱷魚先生史帝夫厄文(Steve Irwin) 在澳洲海域拍攝紀錄片時，不慎被刺魟的毒刺刺中，送醫前毒發身亡。

2006.11.05 前法務部長陳定南因肺癌兩度送到台大醫院急救，並在14:26病重辭世，得年63歲。

2006.12.10智利前獨裁者皮諾契特病逝，得年91歲。上千名民眾排隊瞻仰儀容，智利政府則是決定為皮諾契特舉辦軍事儀式的喪禮。

2006.12.13 寵物當家的雅夫突然過世。

2007.01.14 世界最老人波多黎各高齡115歲的﹝多羅﹞老太太過世。

2007.01.26 尹清楓的父親尹鐸，因為腦溢血跌倒送醫宣告不治，享年86歲。

2007.01.27 有亞洲鐵人之譽的台灣阿美族人楊傳廣，因腦部中風的病情惡化，在加州寓所與世長辭，享年74歲。

2007.01.28 偶像藝人許瑋倫車禍重傷不治，得年28歲。

2007.01.29 世界最老人瑞美國康乃迪克州114歲緹嫚過世。

2007.02.11 布袋戲國寶級大師黃海岱，因為感冒住院，併發肺積水造成呼吸衰竭過世，享年107歲。

The following list is adapted from a longer list compiled by CNN:

2006.01.30  Coretta Scott King. The matriarch of the civil rights movement, Coretta Scott King lost her husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., in 1968 but nurtured his legacy. She founded the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta and oversaw the push for the federal holiday honoring her husband. Four presidents attended her funeral, and more than 115,000 people filed past King's open coffin during a public viewing at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where her husband and his father had preached. She was 78 when she died on January 30.

2006.02.04  Betty Friedan. She published "The Feminine Mystique" in 1963, and the book detailed the frustration of women who were expected to rely on their husbands and children for their happiness. In doing so, Betty Friedan jump-started what became the modern feminist movement. Three years later, she and 27 others founded the National Organization of Women, the largest feminist organization in the country. She died on February 4, her 85th birthday.

2006.02.24  Don Knotts. In his five seasons on the popular 1960s sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show," Don Knotts won five Emmy Awards for his portrayal of the bungling deputy sheriff Barney Fife. He was the show's comic foil, frequently getting into trouble of his own making. After leaving the show, Knotts made a series of films but returned to TV in 1979 on another popular sitcom, "Three's Company." He starred again with Andy Griffith on "Matlock" in a recurring role as a pesky neighbor. He was 81 when he died on February 24 of complications from lung cancer. Another TV star died the same day in Colorado. Dennis Weaver starred in "Gunsmoke" and "McCloud." He was 81.

2006.03.11  Slobodan Milosevic. He died of a heart attack while on trial for war crimes, and former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, 64, was unrepentant to the end. After Croatia, Slovenia and Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence, troops under Milosevic carried out "ethnic cleansing," which he was accused of continuing in Kosovo. Other leaders who died include Ibrahim Rugova, a moderate ethnic Albanian who led Kosovo (January 21, age 61); P.W. Botha, former South African leader who declined to hand over power to the black majority (October 21, age 90); Bulent Ecevit, former prime minister of Turkey (November 5, age 81); and former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet (December 10, age 91).
2006.03.28  Caspar Weinberger. Caspar Weinberger was defense secretary for nearly the entire Reagan administration and oversaw the huge defense buildup during that time. He also was a key figure in the Iran-Contra scandal. He died on March 28 at age 88. Jeanne Kirkpatrick, another key Reagan administration figure, was the first woman to serve as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and was a forceful advocate of U.S. support for anti-communist governments during the Cold War. She was 80 when she died on December 7.

2006.09.13  Ann Richards. She was a brassy, tough-talking Texas politician who rose to the Lone Star State's highest office. But former Texas Gov. Ann Richards' most memorable moment in politics was her address at the 1988 Democratic National Convention. She lambasted the GOP nominee, the wealthy and syntax-challenged George H.W. Bush, by saying "Poor George. He can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth." But Bush won that year, and his son and the future president, George W. Bush, defeated Richards for governor in 1994. Richards died of cancer on September 13. She was 73.

2006.09.26  Iva Toguri ('Tokyo Rose'). She was convicted of treason for being the notorious World War II propagandist that U.S. servicemen nicknamed "Tokyo Rose." But Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a U.S. citizen, was pardoned by President Gerald Ford and her citizenship restored after doubts surfaced about her prosecution. A Chicago Tribune reporter located her accusers, who admitted they were pressured to lie. In January, the World War II Veterans Committee gave her its annual citizenship award, citing her "indomitable spirit" and love of country. She was 90 when she died of natural causes on September 26.

2006.11.01  William Styron. Critics ranked him with the giants of American literature, and novelist William Styron earned the honors that put him there. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for “The Confessions of Nat Turner,” a fictional account of a slave rebellion, and the 1980 American Book Award for “Sophie's Choice.” He also won acclaim for his memoir of his struggle with depression, “Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness.” He was 81 when he died on November 1.

2006.11.09  Ed Bradley. Ed Bradley was a correspondent for CBS's "60 Minutes," and his probing questions combined with a deceptively relaxed interviewing style graced some of the show's most notable reports. He joined "60 Minutes" during the 1981-82 season after two years as White House correspondent for CBS News and three years at "CBS Reports." His work over the years won him a Peabody Award, 19 Emmys and a Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, among many others. He died of leukemia on November 9. He was 65.

2006.11.16  Milton Friedman. A Nobel Prize-winning economist, Milton Friedman believed in free markets with little government intervention. His writings heavily influenced conservative Republicans, and his theories about taxes helped shape the tax cuts pushed by the Reagan administration. He was 94 when he died on November 16. His intellectual opposite, John Kenneth Galbraith, believed government had a role in the economy. A Harvard professor, Galbraith advised Democratic presidents and served as ambassador to India in the early 1960s. He died of natural causes on April 29 at age 97. Finally, Louis Rukeyser, who demystified the world of finance for 30 years on PBS's "Wall $treet Week," died May 2. He was 73.

2006.11.20  Robert Altman. A Hollywood iconoclast, director Robert Altman bucked the studios and found his own way to make films that featured ensemble casts and his signature long tracking shots. A five-time Academy Award nominee, he never won, despite having directed such films as "M*A*S*H," "Nashville" and "Gosford Park." He did receive an Oscar for lifetime achievement in 2006. He died of complications from cancer on November 20. He was 81.

2006.12.25  James Brown. James Brown is known as the Godfather of Soul, but his influence is much broader and deeper. Brown’s performances were sweaty and raw but his rhythms were complex. Brown died on Christmas Day of heart failure at age 73.

2006.12.26  Gerald Ford. Gerald Ford and the presidency intersected at a tumultuous time and "For a nation that needed healing and for an office that needed a calm and steady hand, Gerald Ford came along when we needed him most," President Bush said. With Washington mired in the Watergate scandal, then-House minority leader Ford agreed to serve as Richard Nixon’s vice president in 1973 after Spiro Agnew resigned over tax evasion charges. He became the 38th president the following year when Nixon resigned. Ford inherited a recession, an energy crisis, high unemployment and a country still divided by the Vietnam War. His pardon of Nixon created a bitter backlash that is widely seen as costing him the 1976 election.