3rd January 2017, 9:29 AM
But I can't get behind the "good riddance" thought some people are having. 2017 is literally and metaphorically made of every previous year added together (also called "history"). 2017 is already shaping up to be worse than 2016 by simple virtue that 2017 is when Trump is sworn into office and actually gets authority. In other words, if 2017 is going to be any better, it will be because we looked at 2016 and decided we need to take action. (And no, I'm not suggesting an insurrection. That's a step back, not a step forward.)
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)