Happy Holidays

Well, unbelievably another year has almost passed. It has been a whopper. The largest rally per unit of time in history driven by the most fiscally irresponsible Federal Reserve actions in history, the largest government deficits in history to keep the government-endorsed Frankenstein from collapsing, the largest taxpayer-funded bailout of the largest fraudulent Wall Street schemes in history, the largest transfer of wealth from average Americans to morally-bankrupt mobsters in history followed by the largest bonuses using taxpayer money ever stolen from the American people in history and as of today the largest lobbyist-manipulated government mandate in history appears close to becoming law as public officials accept the largest legal bribes in history driven by the largest lobbyist bubble in history.

Somehow it just doesn't feel like a holiday for me. It's pretty goddamn hard to celebrate when so many people are hanging on by a shoestring courtesy of a corrupt few. It simply didn't need to be this way.

Be that as it may, hopefully for the next few weeks most people will have an opportunity to forget many of the stresses of reality and enjoy quality time with their friends and families. To remember the things in life which truly matter. That is respect and compassion for all of humanity. For the world around us. To idealize our greatest virtues as sentient beings and the capability for constructive change or transformation that goes along with that gift. To remember what it means to be a free society and what responsibilities that entails. Not only to ourselves but to society. To our brothers and sisters. To mercilessly strive to make the world better so that young people and those who follow us don't have to live with the corruption and evil of a very few.

If you are able to do so, why not make the world just a little bit better by impacting the life of someone less fortunate than you through the gift of giving. There are a handful of children's charities which score highly for transparency and governance on the left side of the blog. Or there are countless local organizations across the country and the world.

Regardless of what happened yesterday or today, you can always get back up and fight the good fight.

Peace.

Happy Holidays.