We Welcome the Arrival of Each New Year...

"We welcome the arrival of each New Year with the excitement and enthusiasm normally reserved for newly-elected politicians, conveniently forgetting that just like politics, we are always disillusioned once again as our hopes give way to the inevitable realization that the new guy really isn't all that different than the bum we just escorted out.  Yet, we must keep hope alive for a better day to come, for indeed it will."