Happy 2009, I think.
Posted by mofembot Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:31:00 GMT
On this First Day of 2009, I am answering the exigencies of at least one resolution—the one to blog more often. And yes, one post on New Year’s Day doth not a fulfillèd resolution make, not by a long shot. My resolution is open-ended: I haven’t committed myself to writing on a daily basis, although that could be thought of as ideal (or not). I’m gunning for at least once a week. My record last year was… pathetic. Further, I’m going to try to do more original writing here, rather than simply porting over DailyKos diaries or entries from other venues.
I am also going to try to work on my book in a more regular and Very Serious way. I am restructuring the book’s organization. I would like to get this thing published while people still have money to buy it. (Sighhhh.)
I have some other resolutions as well, but I am not quite ready to write about them. I’d like to see if they stand a snowball’s chance in the usual place of actually occurring, rather than opening myself to Torment and Ridicule. I haven’t had a great deal of success with the whole resolution thing, but some improvement in certain areas, even if only temporary and largely occurring in the first part of the year (okay, the first week of January), is better than doing nothing at all. I think.
So. Here we are in 2009. We have another 19 days to go before Obama is sworn in and solves all of the problems he’s inherited from BushCo and ushers the entire world into a Golden Era of Peace and Prosperity. (No, I am sober.)
I want to go on record here, right now, that I agree with Bob Herbert’s most recent New York Times column: Bush should not be allowed to slink off quietly into the sunset. He and his band of merry mercenary miscreants need to be brought to justice. Equal justice under law isn’t just a nice slogan on the façade of the Supreme Court building. (Well, let me revise that: it shouldn’t be just a nice slogan.) I am not interested in vengeance, I am interested in restoring America to moral good health: without a full accounting, there can be no remediation. Without justice, all of America becomes complicit in the many crimes BushCo has committed ‘lo these past eight extremely long years.
I can dream, can’t I? (Yes.)
While I’m dreaming here, I am also going to hope that the looming global economic catastrophe can be averted. And that the looming global environmental catastrophe can be mitigated. And that I can lose some weight.
Bonne année, tout le monde.