Happy New Year

It's appropriate that January is named for the two-faced Roman god Janus, with one face looking forward and one back. It's that time of year when we obsessively look backward and ruminate on the kind of year it's been, and forward hopefully at the year to come. This year is especially poignant, as everyone prays the economy will get sorted out so we can go back mindlessly to making the mistakes that got us into this mess in the first place.