What 2006 Has Taught Us

Editor, The Review,

In looking back at what I'm thankful for in 2006', for one thing I am thankful it's over. Call me a curmudgeon, if you'd like - but I'm "this way" only because I inherited a Pleistocene brain, you know, the brain that survived the ice age.

It was my great grandfather 1000 times removed who said, "I'm outta here" - just before the winds blew and the snow came and all them trusting cave dwellers became neanderthal-sicles. Thank HIM for my snarliness.

What can I say for Pete sakes? I live in a traumatized city with an "oh gosh-good golly-tazer-enhanced City Council who rides rough-shod over compassion and good sense in a burnt-out Mercedes.

But I've got to admit I find their hostile formality just a tad sexy ooh, baby!  But it doesn't stop there, no-sirree-bob-almighty. It starts at the top, yes withŠ W.
I swear that if there were as many things sticking out of us as Bush shoved in, we'd be a nation of porcupines. Yeah, you heard me right.

My advice to your readers for 2007? Get over it and get with it.  Read more books and remember the lessons learned from the Velveteen Rabbit and Everybody Poops. Be real. Join a fundamentalist church or the Peace Corps - do something with your lives and remember to Work (not too hard), Love (your brothers and sisters) Spend (your cha-ching at White's Bar), and Support Our Troops (coming home).

Caveat: The above attempt to alter your thoughts and perceptions in no way reflect upon the editorial policy of Review Magazine nor the views of at least 153.5 million Americans.

Peace,
Bo White

                                               
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