Do you make New Year's resolutions? Among those that do, it would seem that "spend less money" is topping the list. According to an annual poll conducted by Marist College, spending less money was the third most popular resolution made this year, after losing weight and quitting smoking. Spending less knocked out the usual third-place "be a better person" which fell to seventh this year.
So tell us, what are your big three plans to improve in 2009?
Apparently a number of Italian women resolved to give their husbands and boyfriends the cold shoulder this New Year's Eve if they insisted on the common Naples tradition of shooting off illegal (and often quite dangerous) fireworks to celebrate at midnight. We haven't heard back from Naples yet, but are wondering if it was an unusually quiet New Year.
Even as Roland Burris turns to the Illinois Supreme Court to back his Blagojevich-tainted appointment to the U.S. Senate, we hear that Burris not Blagojevich's first choice. His first choice claims to have turned him down. Said U.S. Representative Danny Davis:
“Given all the revelations and all the controversy, I would not be able to take it from the governor. I felt that if I was to take the appointment, I would spend so much of my time deflecting and defending the position that it would take away my real reason for being involved in politics and political life — to find solutions to problems.”
We are sad to start the New Year this way, but must send our deepest condolences to the the loved ones of those lost in the nightclub fire last night in Bangkok.
In brighter news, happy birthday to J.D. Salinger, who is 90 today. Do you think he reads Strollerderby?
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