My New Year's resolution Resolutions for the new year are about correcting sins of omission and commission. The basic idea is to make lists of our intentions to begin doing certain things we should have been doing, but weren't, and to stop doing certain other things we should not have been doing, but were. This is a good thing to do.
Nobody is perfect.
So, in the spirit of the season, I will confess that during the last eight grueling years, I wrote a few unkind things about various people and groups. I wince when I remind myself of what I have done, but true repentance requires complete candor. In that spirit, I must confess to having written bad things about various liberal heroes and icons. For example, I mischievously said of our statuesque vice president that his artificiality suggests he is not wooden as many contend, but plastic, and therefore a non-biodegradable menace to the political environment. I called him a scalawag, boll weevil, southern confederate.