Predicting 2013: Awful Things Will Stay Awful or Get Awfuller

I don’t make New Year’s resolutions. I surrender to every lazy, venial backsliding tendency lurking in my insufficient character. But they make sense for a lot of people. Not just in that that Dale Carnegie “winning friends and influencing people” way, but in the sense that they act as a bulwark against every inexorable, cruddy force surrounding us. More »