All I want for Christmas.....
As the end of the year approaches, one naturally takes inventory on one's life and is easily reminded of what has (or has not) been accomplished in the past year. Sometimes this list evolves into a list of New Year's resolutions, a list that will likely be discarded within a couple of days after its creation, and sometimes the list is just completely forgotten.
While it's obvious that another year will go by with Public Enemy #1, Osama bin Laden and his band of terrorists, still at large, it was promising that the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office identified the culprit who threw the infamous beer at Ron Artest triggering the basketball melee heard around the world a few weeks ago. But alas, I think, this was a rare case of prosecutorial efficiency as, generally, delay dominates the judicial landscape.
In the spirit of the season, then, I compiled a list of some recent notable cases, some less notable, I'd like to see resolved once and for all as a nice a little Christmas present for me and my loved ones:
(10) The Atlanta Olympic Bombing (Eric Rudolph was arrested in 2003 but haven't heard anything since);
(9) The D.C. anthrax scare (national news in 2001 and then nothing);
(8) The Valerie Plame newspaper leak (P. Fitzgerald's really dragging his feet on this one);
(7) The prosecution of Enron Corp. (Enron who?);
(6) Who was responsible for simultaneously blowing up the two Russian jetliners? (link);
(5) Michael Jackson's molestation charges (res ipsa);
(4) Princess Diana's "accidental" death (was Charles really involved?);
(3) Who murdered Tupac and Biggie? (is it really that easy to "cap" a couple of rappers and get away with it?);
(2) Did the KGB really poison this poor guy with dioxin?
(1) And last, but not least, I'd like know whatever happened in the pizza man bombing case? You know the one, the mysterious murder of the pizza man who went out for a delivery and came back with a bomb sadistically locked around his neck and ended up blowing up right in front of police. I thought the FBI would've cracked this one by now.....
I'm sure there are plenty more so feel free to send along any of your suggestions. I think Santa is still accepting our wishlists....
posted by Rudy Law at 12/22/2004 02:28:00 PM
3 Comments:
Christmas wish list? Aren't you afraid of irritating the non-Christians in your reading audience? Don't get all ticked off now. I'm just kidding. Other than #3, I can support your list. Tupac and Biggie were thugs and ran with thugs. Mother was right when she said to pick your friends well...
HAPPY HOLIDAYS to you and all TWO GOOD LEGS readers!
Nah, I'm not afraid of the alienation. I support all the good parts of any religion, big or small. It's the bad parts that scare me. Like Abe, I feel a lot of the time the bad parts actually are the only parts, with church bombings, abortion clinic attacks, and 9/11s seeming to be the rule rather than exceptions to religious devotion.
Wasn't it Shakespeare who aptly said that even Devil can cite scripture for his purposes?
When it comes to Christmas, though I was raised a Roman Catholic, I go out of my way to remain neutral in holiday cards, etc ("happy holidays" & "happy new year!"). Frankly, it's just the respectful thing to do (in fact, probably the Christian thing to do, too, but I haven't been to Mass in sometime so I don't know what they're teaching these days).
So, I guess, sadly, depending on your perspective, you probabaly won't see me yelling at the top of my vocal chords, "Merry Christmas!" like George Bailey in "It's a Wonderful Life" unless, of course, I'm with my family or friends I know I won't offend.
But thanks for the season greetings, Rock. Have a warm, safe holiday season to you, too:)
--Rudy
I realize this is certainly not a novel question/comment and this dead horse has probably been beaten around the whole blogosphere ... but I don't get how wishing someone a merry Christmas would be offensive? I have never once thought of being offended by the words "Happy Chanuka" or "Have a great Kwanzaa"? Christmas these days has absolutely NOTHING to do with the birth of Christ and has everything to do with unwrapping a bunch of presents and having time off of work. I think its ridiculous that anything involving Christianity is automatically assumed to be offensive just by simply being Chrisian in nature. If we truly have the freedom to worship and believe anything we want in this country - we should celebrate being able to say this out loud.
Merry Christmas!!
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