Of course, Arthur at The Light of Reason goes way beyond the usual lightweight drivel found at my site with What If ... Imagination, Tolerance, and an Unpredictable — But Possibly Glorious — Future - The possibilities are limitless, and so the choice is a simple one: you can either focus primarily on what is wrong with the world now, or you can ask yourself: What if...? And the answers to that seemingly simple question are bounded only by your imagination.
I resolve to be Arthur Silber when I grow up. Don't look for that in 2003.

BUSINESS ADVICE

Diane at Everything Must Go steers us in the direction of organic, free-range dairy farms with a reflection on the story of the deaths of 3 immigrant workers - Sergio Ortiz died in a stew of liquefied manure on the job in Gustine (Merced County), a modest dairy town on a narrow highway that slices through cow country like a razor. His death came just 18 months after a similar incident claimed two workers at another Gustine dairy farm. All were overcome by toxic wastewater gases, then drowned, after climbing inside concrete structures where manure slurry is pumped from vast waste lagoons.
I resolve to pay more attention to where my food comes from in 2003.

Dave at Clubbeaux snidely suggests that the most prolific hitter in the history of baseball has been given his due in Pete Rose voted into the Hall of Fame - In a world exclusive Clubbeaux has learned that noted sports gambler Pete Rose has been tapped for induction in the Gamblers' Hall of Fame, located in Reno, Nevada. "Yeah, well, we was tired of seein' Pete get beat up, y'know?" said Sammy Marcetti, curator of the Hall of Fame. "Dere was all dis talk about does Pete belong in the Hall or not. Hell, lemme tell you dere ain't nobody alive who belongs in dis Hall of Fame more than Pete Rose."
I resolve to get back into the truly meaningful world of baseball debates in 2003.

Moe at Occam's Toothbrush helps us to uncover the evil plot of fast food companies to make us fat in a controversial missive on December 30 - Well here it comes. Shannon Brownlee, in The Washington Post, writes the first (that I've seen) of what is sure to be many arguments that attempt to give some intellectual covering fire to the plaintiff's attorneys. She argues that the food companies have in fact been guilty of cynically manipulating the average American into becoming a porker.
I resolve to throw off the yoke of corporate junk food oppression in 2003... right after I finish this Whopper™...

Steve, the author of Helloooo Chapter Two!, has proof that Canada has moral superiority over the U.S. in Morality Schmorality - If an American company had been engaging in acts like this against a Canadian one, surely the Canadians would have understood that American companies have the right to act as they wish regardless of who they affect, and would have forgiven the fictional company for "slamming" customers. They might have even sent some aid money to this company, which must have been incredibly disadvantaged to have to resort to such tactics (there's no other possible reason, is there?). Instead, us barbaric Americans went to our notoriously corrupt and bloodthirsty courts and, in a fit of rage, declared the poor misguided "Domain Registry of America" to be in violation of America's immoral laws. Will we never learn?
I resolve to Blame Canada! for everything in 2003.