Some television shows go on too long. They do as much as they can with the characters and tell all the stories that are possible to tell. Then the audience begins to lose interest and fall away. Remember Happy Days? They did an episode where Fonzi went water skiing (in his iconic leather jacket) and ended up jumping over a shark. They say that was the moment when the sit com had run out of ideas. So the phrase, "Jumped the Shark" is an eloquent way to say  past your prime.

The year is almost over and this is usually a time when we reflect on the past, and hope for the future. Some people are concerned that the world is going to end in 2012. I'm not really that concerned about it. Nothing you can do about it anyway. Maybe it is time for the world to end. We've lost all compassion for each other, the rich have screwed things up for the rest of us with their insatiable greed and lust for power. Maybe, as a civilization we jumped the shark. I think it happened with Motley Crue's first album.