Lev Butts' New Year's Resolutions

So it's a new year. A time to reflect on your failures of the past and to look forward to your new failures ahead. It's a time to think about the poor decisions that led you to whatever sorry state you found yourself in at 11:59 PM December 31, as you knelt on hands and knees releasing all the alcohol you had earlier ingested into a cold and frozen street gutter as you anxiously await the dropping of whatever shamanic object your local civic administrators have deemed symbolic of your community. Yes, my local little hamlet has decided the possum is our most perfect metaphor It is a time to consider what different actions you may take in the following year to prevent these same mistakes and usher in all new and interesting ones. It is, in short, time for the litany of new year's resolutions. I'm not generally one to make new year's resolutions. I know myself well-enough to know that trouble and disappointment will find me regardless of whatever ill-con...