Everyone has got an opinion!  what is yours worth? In spite of that, there is no point arguing with those who insist they are right. Besides one needs to be open-minded about new ideas and all the rest since life is too short for just you know what. At its best, this year has been an annus horribilis for many at the rump end of a dysfunctional economy.  Many lost their jobs, my gums are giving me trouble and the wife does not know when to stop being a constant source of pain. All in all, it has been a tough year with, what it seems, a perennial struggle to make ends meet.  Notwithstanding, I accept that the well will always be impatient of the poor just as the young will always be impatient of the old but, sometimes, shouting wake the echoes of the silence and it is good to vent one's opinion and despair loudly, once in while, to the world in the hope that someone somewhere would hear us even if they don't  listen to what we say from their cosy womb of carelessness.  

P.Figueras