Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a great New Year for all!

My Christmas wish list to Santa:

• Global energy independence from fossil fuels and nuclear energy over the next 20 years using existing capital, real estate and technologies.  Sounds like a great public works project that would employ a lot of laborers, construction workers and engineers.
• The tech sector should start realizing their job is often to put other people out of jobs.
• National legalization of marijuana: tax and regulate it, and spend the money we spend on criminalizing it on something more useful.  Like Pat Robertson says.
• An end of poverty: a universal basic income equivalent to poverty line income, no strings attached, funded by a combination of a household carbon tax of no more than $100/year and   de-funding organizations helping those in poverty (because no one would techinically qualify anymore).  See reasoned discussions from those flaming commies at Business Insider and Forbes Magazine.

For all of us who's celebration no longer includes family or friends who are no longer with us, may you please find love and hope this season and be consoled that they are not forgotten.