New Year's Resolutions From Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, Martha Stewart

Many people at year's end reread that most influential man, Charles Dickens. Not only "A Christmas Carol," but also his sweeping books of the human spirit like "Great Expectations" and, especially, "Bleak House." Dickens's damp, soot-fogged London has the feel of America in deep winter, but he inflects that cold city with his bright, generous humanity, a reassuring combination that encourages our annual desire to greet January renewed. Dickens's best characters suggest that the story of life is in the striving, the ongoing effort to begin again and become, even for a moment, our very best selves. So that some day, after we are gone, someone may say, as Jo the homeless crossing sweep does of the dead opium addict Nemo, "He wos wery good to me, he wos." Nemo means "nobody" in Latin and that tragic man exists to tell us we can't do it alone.

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Comments

[hortonhearsawho2]

A Convict, a Preacher and a Lump of Hair walk into a bar...sounds like a joke anyway.

[texasrodeoqueen]

Mitt Romney- "well, the women of America didn't fall for my looks, so I'm going to have to aim for 2012 a different way"
Mike Huckabee- "well, the women of America didn't fall for my Andy Griffith/Mr Rogers facade, so I'll go on Fox and preach there instead of the Presidency"
Martha Stewart- "I will continue to be perfect- nothing else matters"

[SirHenryClinton]

Huckabee is going to do a talk radio show on ABC. Howard Stern once said "radio is the bottom of the barrel". Huckabee on ABC talk radio? Yes, bottom of the barrel would be an accurate description. I'm glad to see all of the religious fanatics and assorted corporate fascist crowding into talk radio. Like all fads they will saturate the market and then the demand for their drivel will crash.