I am more than ready, at this point, to have the year come to an end, and to be about the business of doing something with this one.
I need a year that doesn’t involve surgeries for my children, or job horrors for me, or the general state of insignificance that my politics or my journalistic endeavors have fallen into. I need the progressive movement to wake up and realize that, though the tactics may differ, we’re as necessary under Barack Obama as under George W. Bush. I need to get back on a stage. I need a contract for my company. I need for the Israelis and the Palestinians to stop killing each other, and just settle differences with Parcheesi or something. I need to get off my duff and get back into shape. I need another trip to Ocean City and a number of days under a warm sun. I need the Orioles to have a winning season, and I need to watch the Yankees spend a great deal of money to buy everyone in sight and then collapse like an overripe avocado. I need for those very few tie-wearing white guys responsible for the appalling collapse of the economy of the United States to be staked out over anthills, their bodies smeared with honey. I need to be part of an America in which I do not feel like the single lamb sitting at the table with four wolves when a vote comes up on what to have for lunch. There are some other things that I need that I won’t get into right now.
None of these things are likely to happen in 2009.
But it’s for certain they didn’t in 2008.
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