New Year!

Here we are; Christmas 2012 is complete and we are now heading into 2013!

Hopefully we can avoid the impending "fiscal cliff!"

I have to start thinking entrepreneurially about my life and what I want and how to get it!

HAPPY OBJECTIVE NEW YEAR EVERYBODY!

Thank You, Rodney Dangerfield

Flash back to 1981; my parents have purchased Mr. Dangerfield's "No Respect" comedy album.

I overheard my father telling my mother the content might be "inappropriate for Louise;" of course the result of that was the record playing on the turntable the moment the two of them left the house.

Most fifteen year olds are immature and I was definitely no exception!

Anyhow, I remember one passage very well, "Love your neighbor as yourself; WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO JERK HIM OFF, TOO?"

Ha ha ha, that one certainly got a result from the audience and from yours truly!

All joking aside, what I have learned from Objectivism is that is not possible to "love your neighbor as yourself."

The reasoning is that all human beings, including one's neighbor, must use his or her noodle-strudle, aka reasoning power, to determine his or her goals towards lifetime satisfaction and happiness; one cannot love one's neighbor as yourself since one does not possess the ability to read the mind of another person and thus determine what he or she wants.

After one establishes one goals, the next step is to use one's noodle to determine the most efficient and effective course of action to achieve those goals.

Of course one must ensure that one's methods do not interfere with the life and satisfaction goals of "your neighbor."

So...everyone person out there should be responsible for his or her masturbation activity, how the hell can you possible know how your neighbor likes his or her genitals stimulated?

IT'S BEGINNING TO LOOK A LOT LIKE CHRISTMAS!

I spent most of last weekend at a hotel party in the northwest suburbs.

The Christmas tree in the lobby was beautiful and I stole a copy of the Bible from my room.

Anyhow, despite our comparatively mild weather the holiday season is now upon Chicagoland!

And speaking of Christmas there is the "Scrooge issue."

At the story's end Ebenezer Scrooge may have become a benevolent employer to Robert Crachit but hopefully he still remained a EMPLOYER, expecting Crachit to properly perform his job, etc.

And then there's the scene at the end of the musical "Scrooge" (Albert Finney was the star) in which the title character proceeeds to forgive all of his business loans; hopefully that was just something he decided to do for the holiday and he was back to work in January; after all, if Scrooge essentially gives away his entire livelihood, who is going to employee Crachit and in turn how is Crachit going to support his big family (birth control as we now know it certainly did not exist in 1830s Great Britain and I'm sure that Crachit's wife did not work!)

Ah....life.....