Gmar Chatima Tova

So...sundown yesterday to sundown today marked Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday and Day of Atonement.

You've got to appreciate the social conscience of a faith that emphasizes personal responsibility, accountability, and contrition, not just to some faceless, recherché metaphysical curmudgeon, but to our fellow man. As someone who offends people with all the metered regularity of a clepsydra, I can certainly see the wisdom in owning my shortcomings, and asking forgiveness for the wrongs I have knowingly and unknowingly done.

So that's what I'm doing right now, after a fashion. If you are reading this, chances are that I have wronged you somehow in the last year. I am sorry. I believe that I am a fundamentally good man. I certainly try to be. Sometimes I fail. If I have hurt you in any way, please accept my sincerest apologies.

Good night, happy new year, and bless you all...if that is your thing.