I’m annoyed by how politically correct America has become, no one can be offended anymore so we have to make modifications to traditions the country has had for 2 centuries! I’m tired of clerks telling me to have a happy holiday, it’s Christmas and New Year you spineless twit doing what the man tells you to do! I’m being sarcastic but I do think it is pretty dumb no one says Merry Christmas anymore. It was a breath of fresh air to see all of my e-mails flying back and forth at work today (there are hundreds due to my position) all containing Merry Christmas in them – and I work for a company larger than your fat uncle who makes a pig out of himself every holiday and passes out in his dinner plate. I don’t see what the big deal is, “wah I’m offended” – everyone is offended by everything, is this a problem? No, just everyone is too sensitive because our free country enables it. I think we need to throw rocks at those people. Heavy ones. I don’t care what race you are, what your religion is, what sex you are – I want you to have a Merry Christmas god damn it! Even that seems like a paradoxical thing to wish on someone as I scorn witnessing capitalism and commercialism rear its ugly head out where people need to punch eachother for a stupid Elmo toy that just screams sexual harassment is going to play a roll in that child’s future sooner or later. Blah, Christmas is about spending time with your family and taking some time from our busy little worker bee lives to focus on family – and whether or not you’re Christian go believe in something even if it is as simple as a close friend or relative or even yourself. It’s hard to live without believing in anything. I am very ba-humbug towards the stupid side of Christmas but I like the rest of it. It is a good time to stop looking at everything that went wrong this year and look at everything that went right. For me, it was a year of ups and downs but right now is certainly and up and hopefully it will be… even uh, more… uppier? – at the conclusion of the year. I certainly have a whole plethora of things I can be pleased about this year, despite a few pit falls along the way – alas, here I am and that is a rather comforting thought.

- Ryan