In the business world it is always tough around the holiday season when wishing someone a happy season.  Which holiday should you choose?  Should you go with the boring happy holidays?  What about people who aren’t celebrating anything, or just hate the entire season like Ebenezer Scrooge?

There is one day that is indifferent to cultural or religious beliefs that everyone celebrates and that day is the New Years.

Unless you know the person to be using a calendar other than the Gregorian calendar, stop sending them “Happy Holidays” cards and start sending them Happy New Year cards.

Not only will you not run the risk of offending someone but you will also stand out from the crowd of Happy Holiday cards that everyone gets these days.

Down with the “Holidays” and up with the New Year!

Iraqi journalists.  That’s who.

Yesterday, an Iraqi journalist who I didn’t bother to research threw both of his shoes at El Presidente Bush.  Hilarious.

In the olden days they used to throw pie and eggs, but this Iraqi spin on American political activism and theater is a welcomed change.

I was inspired to write about it when I discovered a short clip being looped on bugmenot.com’s home page.  Awesome.

For those that want to read more the Huffington Post has video and a slideshow of the shoe flinging.

I like President George W. Bush.  Hear me out before you call for the tar and feathering!

I like him because he is the decider.  I like him because he doesn’t read newspapers.  I like him because he has an evil snicker and sneer.  Most importantly, though, I like him because he has done more for this country than any other president in recent history.

Don’t believe me?  Look at what is going on in our country today.  President Bush v2 has so enraged and demoralized the american public that they are turning out to the polls in record numbers, and a lot of those voters have a new kind of choice.  You are still limited to democrat or republican, but at least it isn’t a ticket of four aging white men from privileged backgrounds.

Think about that.  Could that have been possible if George W. Bush had never become president?  Would we have the choice we have today if he had not fucked up our country, and the world, so severely?

Even republicans are abandoning the sinking ship as the party turns into one of the ultra right-wing Christian conservatives.  A legion of Sarah Palins.  Imagine it!  The cries of one thousand, “you betchas”, ringing in your ears.

It would be really great for our country if all these non-insane republicans would form a new party where “missions from God” didn’t exist.  I might even vote for some of them — maybe.

George might not be responsible for all this directly, especially, the bumbling of the McCain campaign, but he definitely got the ball rolling.

My only hope is that George Bush has done enough damage to our country.  Done enough damage to the world.  And done enough damage to the republican party, so that we will not see another one of his kind for a long time to come — if ever.