Dear Friends/Communist Liberal Pinko Elitists: Happy New Year. May this be the year that ignorance, racism, xenophobia, conservative culture warfare, anti-abortion crusading, greed apologetics and corporation idolatry become socially leprous. May snark become old-fashioned or at least more difficult to put into practice. May this year see President Obama’s reelection, the dismantling of Rupert Murdoch’s vast criminal enterprise, the death of the George W tax cuts and Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney and the Kardashians, the scaling back of income inequality, for the Republican party to keep eating itself into nothingness, for regulation and transparency to put an end to the boom-and-bust speculation of the last thirty years, for the emergence of liberal democracies in unlikely places, for the US to make a real effort towards using alternative fuels and thinking further into the future than the next quarterly dividend, for the strength to stop shopping at the big box stores altogether and stop eating Big Ag food like substances, support independent media and each other, and occupy living in dignity.
But I would settle for not living in a third world country.
With best wishes for a good-humored and peaceful New Year, and btw the War on Christmas is over and the good guys won