Merry Christmas, dear reader. Did you get everything you wanted for Christmas? Are you now left with that hollow feeling, that sense that the having doesn’t justify all that wanting? Do you now envy your tree, now barren of gifts and still standing unchanged?

Have you considered Buddhism?

Of course not. That’s why you’re going to make sure your gift list for next year is more precise.

(By the way, I know the prose is a bit sloppy in this one. It was written between gulping down eggnog and snatching up last-minute Christmas gifts. We’ll be updating this soon.)