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Re: Re: You would prefer the depressing letters?

I would rather receive a letter such as you suggest than this self absorbed and arrogant junk!

posted by RedStatesMan on January 2, 2009 at 9:24 PM | link to this | reply

Re: You would prefer the depressing letters?

I like that idea of Epiphany letters.  One of my favorite annual letter writers just announced on his Facebook site that he finished his 'Christmas' letter just before midnight, New Year's Eve.  I can't wait to read it.  Haven't started mine yet, so Epiphany is a possibility.  Or President's Day.  April Fools' Day.  The possibilities are, well, out there . . .

posted by mousehop on January 1, 2009 at 10:48 AM | link to this | reply

You would prefer the depressing letters?

A friend of mine, a single dad with some medical problems and a problematic business, sends out an annual letter which, despite his good humor and occasional rays of light emanating from his daughter, casts a factual gloom.  He tends politically to be more of an independent thinker rather than a liberal.

I have been thinking of sending out Epiphany letters, being habitually late, but I have a lot of depressing news to catch up on with some silver linings along the lines of you can't lose much if you're already broke.  I am a Popular Capitalist, as I had chosen to define it back in the early eighties.  If I were to express it in slightly more familiar political terms, you may call it free-market populism.  People say that I am to the left of Karl Marx and to the right of Adam Smith.  I wouldn't disagree entirely with that assessment, but just use it to note the two-dimensional inadequacy of the liberal-conservative political scale.

Given that, what sort of letter do you think I would produce?

Have a Better New Year Than You Might Expect,

Carl Peter

posted by cpklapper on January 1, 2009 at 5:54 AM | link to this | reply

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That's funny, two of the four we receive are from liberals. Maybe you are just lucky!

posted by RedStatesMan on December 31, 2008 at 6:42 PM | link to this | reply

Dear Redman:

I didn't even get a letter this year & only 4 cards. I guess some didn't fair as well. LOL  I agree that letters like that are annoying. The old saying is it takes all kinds of people to make up a world. I immediatly reply, "It doesn't take them, we've just got'em!"  Happy New Year!

posted by Texas_Gem on December 31, 2008 at 4:01 PM | link to this | reply

You seem to have odd friends.  I find Christmas letters entertaining.  But then my friends seem to be honest about their lives.  Of course, they are almost all liberals, so maybe that's the difference.

posted by mousehop on December 31, 2008 at 8:19 AM | link to this | reply

Those annual letters drive me nuts too! Happy New Year! sam

posted by sam444 on December 31, 2008 at 5:41 AM | link to this | reply