'Tis the Season...
The newspaper is filled with summaries of the year's events--newsmakers, notables, notorious crimes. We're entering an election year, so naturally there are lots of pious political predictions. In our community there is great interest in a couple of bowl games, so there are plenty of pigskin prognostications, too. Most of these features bore me. I don't need to be reminded of serial murders, the misdeeds of area politicians, or the fact that my alma mater is in a non-BCS bowl. Most of these things are an intrusion on my holiday serenity. I want to keep the Christmas season through Epiphany, hanging on to the birth of Christ and His promise of peace. I also want to ignore all party invitations for the night of December 31st and I loathe the idea of New Years resolutions, but that's another story. For now, my Christmas naughty and nice list. Ho Ho Ho and Merry Merry! Naughty Radio stations that start playing Christmas music* on Halloween, then stop on Christmas night *no...