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Well, I hope you all had a very happy holiday this past weekend, as my family and I did!  We did the whole nine yards-- turkey, ham, dressing, stuffing, mashed sweet potatoes, and--yes!--pumpkin pie!  Turns out we had a couple of cans in stock up on the shelf in our cupboard, so we have an extra can for our Christmas feast.  Yeah, folks.  Just one more month till Christmas, and the end of this year.  Boy, if this year wasn't one of the doozies!  It certainly was one for the history books.  The first African American President being sworn into office, the deaths of many of the greatest legends, the greatest of all, of course, Michael Jackson, the biggest shock of the year, the economy still being in the toilet, and the lever, it seems, about to be pushed down at any moment, the misadventures of Balloon Boy and his dysfunctional family, the average American teenager's chances of being upwardly mobile being dashed to bits in California, thanks to the University of California system raising tuition by thirty two percent!  Thirty two!  Can you believe that!  As if California doesn't already have enough problems!  And, of course, Tiger Woods and his controversial early morning accident in front of his house.  We're still trying to figure out what happened there.  Perhaps the only good thing that happened this year was Microsoft releasing Windows 7, then pulling out of sponsoring a Family Guy variety show because they didn't agree with the subject matter.  At least we have someone with some kind of values. 

And now, on to something that is very, very disturbing.  I have been hearing a lot about the rash of physical attacks on redheads on some school campuses across this country.  Now, I find this to be particularly disturbing, being a redhead myself (all right, a pharmacy store bottle redhead, but still--) and many people think this stems from a South Park episode in which a character (not one of the sharpest knives in the drawer on this show, I might add) said that redheads were soulless and suffer from a disease called "Gingervitis."  I think this particular character suffers from a condition as well.  It's called "being born without a brain."  But enough about that.  I really don't think that the media is no more to blame for such rude, discriminatory and violent behavior as is certain kids' parents and teachers are.  Sure, we kids learn an awful lot from the media, but we also learn from example.  And who does set a better (or not so, in most cases) example of social behavior for children than the adults in their lives?  Huh?  After all, such behavior have been around, to quote Fonzie from an episode of Happy Days, "since the time of the caveman," but television has only been around since the Truman Administration.  So where did kids learn such behavior before Truman got into office?  By the way, you'd better be careful of some of the redheads you choose to pick on, because some of us will really chill your crap.  Yeah, some of us redheads are really capable of giving you the real fight of your life.

That's all the time we have for this week, folks.  Until next week, be well and stay well!

Sincerely,




Marley Sue