gee...headlines blare regarding the Britney situation. The Washington Post throws salt in the wounds left by the loss of a female soldier in Iraq.......Iowa caucasi are over  before the last Christmas tree has been mulched. I loaned a friend a vacuum cleaner which I have babied over the years and he returned it missing an attachment and with a key piece broken that wont allow me to store it in an upright position, therefore saving space.  Gee....no surprises at all.

Of course the New Year is an artificial line of demarcation in time. Like the insanity of y2k, y2k-plus-8 is pretty pedestrian. Sure it's a leap year! An American election year! A Britney falls to pieces year!

Don't get me wrong, the dependability of peaceful transitions of power in the good ol' USA is a remarable thing in this world of Pakistans and Kenyas. And the idiot who broke my vacuum is still being called a friend by me....of course that may change when I demand he pay for repair parts!  What I'm blowing smoke about is the same old human behavior (also remarkable, considering the wealth of articles claiming human evolution is accelerating, and the current crop of 20 somethings is actually more intellegent than preceeding generations. LOL! I guess lowering the standards for SATs and re-rigging standard IQ tests counts for something! LOL!) 

Soooo...to make this a truely new year, let's do something ORIGINAL. I mean really original, not something you are told is original, not something that is meerly an unoriginal negative image or action of what you percieve to be "the norm.'

You know what would be really new!? Leave politics out of the election! Vote for people who will serve the country as a whole, with honesty and integrity. Leave Britney alone, I mean let her go so private she forgets why she is so messed up. Leave your under-grad sloppy journalism at the door.

Let's see...oh yeh! Try being boring and hard working instead of flash-in-the-pan criminal.  World peace? Do I hear World peace, from anyone?  Guess what?  In peaceful times and places, more people make more money and enjoy much higher standards and quality of life!

If you are still reading..have a happy and wonderful, NEW YEAR!