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Joy To The World
Plainly, this'll be a slow week for the macro-market crowd.
It's Christmas, which means the entire
Merry Christmas
Hosanna!
Absolutely ridiculous. The holiday, I mean. You celebrate the birth of God, who chose to come to the world as a poor man, whose parents couldn’t give birth to him in a decent place and who specifically said rich people mostly do not go to heaven. You celebrate by spending enough money to save hundreds of people from starvation on useless gifts. Luther would have said it comes straight from the devil, much like the prosperity gospel. I tried that thing of giving donations to charity as gifts once. Will not do it again, seeing the reaction once was enough. I guess it really shows what people really believe in, huh.
Merry Christmas and thank you for a year of learning and enjoyment.
Happy Winter Solstice, or as it is more commonly known “The Middle of Winter”.
I grew up going to a Congregational Church. I rarely find myself going to church, but this morning, circumstances found me in a beachside congregational church (not the one I attended while growing up). The capacity was 200 and the physical count of people present was 38.
At one point, the Abner Hale variety minister asked the children to step forward for a story. The only child present (maybe 5 years old) bravely walked to the front of the church. The minister asked her “how big is God”? She shrugged. He asked her if God is bigger than an elephant? She said “yes”. He asked her what else God was bigger than. She responded, “Taylor Swift”.
I swear I didn’t make this up! 🙂
“The tradition of Festivus begins with the airing of grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now you’re gonna hear about it!” Frank Costanza