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.....