I hate the holiday season. But, listed below are people who totally deserve to both profit from and love it.
So I’m sitting here about to write a “Holiday Shopping Review,” about to give people advice on where to shop and what to buy for the holidays. Then, I realized, I hate them. Thanksgiving, Hanukkah and Christmas are my three least favorite holidays on the calendar (blame my family, “Vict’ry With the Help of God,” from 8th Grade Chorus and being a lapsed Catholic respectively) and in writing said review, my head would likely explode from plain outright lying and being a pandering author, which is certainly not my goal here in any way whatsoever.
So, instead of all of that nonsense, I’ll tell you about a few good people I know over the next few weeks and whythey actually deserve your money at the holidays for being just all around top notch quality people you’ve likely never heard of, but should:
So, some find this controversial, I find it wonderful. My political acculturing took place in 1988 when I played Michael Dukakis versus Kimathi Tull’s George Bush in a group of debates shown in the DC Public School System. These kids, they get their political awkening from reciting painstakingly reworked T.I. lyrics. I’m all for subverting the system for the sake of education. This is really quite amazing. I can’t imagine the kids esposusing John McCain were happy, but, shit. They got on CNN for this, so i suppose it really wasn’t that hard of a sell. Me, I’d be the kid refusing to take part at all. I once turned down a semester trip to Saudi Arabia in the sixth grade because of my fear of terrorism. Yeah, that one was pretty dumb. I mean, the girl that ended up going, yeah, all she took from the trip was that English speaking shows are badly dubbed and McDonald’s tastes the same pretty much everywhere. Gah! But yeah, without further ado, the children from Atlanta, GA’s Ron Clark Academy with “You Can Vote However You Like…”