Happy New Year, Everybody!

As 2012 finally, painfully, draws to a close, I thought I'd drop this on you all, to mark the transition.

For some of us, 2012 has been a delightful, surprising, joyous, amazing year. But for a huge majority, this year has been one of pain, fear and joylessness, persecuted by a government we set up to protect us but which turned out to have been infiltrated and suborned by the corrupt, the venal, the evil, the stupid, the moronic and the blunt, the brutish and the cruel.

Let's hope 2013 is the year we ring time on them all. There are two comets coming this year - one at the beginning, and a huge one sun-grazing at the end, with luck. If you were superstitious, you could hope that these comets presage the deaths of princes - or the overthrow of corrupt governments whose time has come and long gone, and who now need to be put down permanently as the mad dogs they all are.

Here's to 2013. Hope it's the day we get to apply some antiseptic to the stinking, suppurating, festering corruption that passes for power. Let's lance some septic boils in this coming year.