Welcome 2012.

Last year's music (for me) was 'cities on fire' (Blue oyster cult) mixed with “crown of creation' - (Jefferson airplane.)

This year? I hope to see BB die of his own ineptness. Of tips, to be more precise.

Welcome to the morgue, people. (No tipping allowed.)

The life of a priest's company... newborn, the newly (or nearly) dead and development stages in between. Development? Ha! Like these things every happen. Sex, for instance....

Sex. Connect, relationship and develop. You like easy connections, you put up with the troubles that come with it. A changing relationship is hard work And you might be the one changing. Development is a mind-bender. Think that's likely?

Yeah? How far did you get? Just about as far as you got shoved with no choice?

Sin? Greed, vanity and power problems vs. development, self-improvement and enlightenment.

Personally, I don't think much past greed is likely. (The police say 'method, motive and opportunity'. The motive is usually money, revenge or power.

Money? Implied production, medium of exchange and wealth sink (Sunk, mostly)

But this is a story about the new year... the year of the dragon. (2012)

Brought by a vulture, not a stork; Or a crane, as the Asian call them.

Tiger was hungry, and he killed and ate the year of the rabbit. He was still hungry, so he ate the crane carrying the dragon egg too.

Vulture, eating the leftover carcass, brought the egg to life... some say accidentally. Vulture brought in the new year anyway.

Tiger is still out there; and still hungry too.

Tiger knew where rabbit was because of a tip.... from Big Brother.

Big Bro. Yes, your cell-phone is stalking you. It also causes cancer if you use it enough.

BB (big brother) is a govt project, and works about as well as any other other govt project. (here in Canada, they've thrown away 4 billion on software projects that have never been implemented. (P.O., external affairs comm-ware, DB stuff...)

Holy hate-campaigns, bread and circuses. The special effects should be real good, eh?

These are not the over-lapping security ops... like the only dealer in town being a 'maid-man' for fink-world who'll sells his competition’s names to narks or the family...

This is gossip world, where finks thrown themselves into police security... and get used as bait, fall-guys and targets when other methods fail.

This is more about the tipping necessary to get any action out of pol apparatus. Campaign contrlbs and, bribing waitresses... and I saw someone tipping people for a push out of snowbank last week.

Paying for charity. Welfare gangs? Tipping kills. And like earthquakes, radiation pollution and bad additives, only likely to get worse.

So.

Economic recovery. Our choices seem to be 1: A dirty china model (oilsands), 2: a Russian gangster model or 3: the American 'eventually'. (When gangsters and governments run out of things to steal., that is. Like pension plans.)

It'll end up being a deadly mix of all three, I betcha.

Gangsters protecting territory and markets, corporations burying bodies ( like gulf oil-spill protestors, water projects and gas fracking) and the Big Momma S'mother helping BB out.

If that last sentence was too fast for you, read it again.

The days are getting longer. We are enlightened.

And they bear a gift that looks like cruel and unusual punishment from here.