'Tis the season to be jolly - and for watching junk TV. For some reason I woke up to Scrooge playing on the box. I guess i went to sleep with the TV on last night? Anyway, it was the version with Captain Jean Luc Picard from Star Trek as Scrooge. He played the infamous character in a Shakespearean style and for the first time ever, I actually got the story.

Obviously I knew it was a tale about the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, playing on the mind of a miserable miser, but this version actually conveyed the underlying message in an understandable way.

Man has the ability to change his behavior to make the world a better place. Just because you have done wrong thing your whole life, doesn't make it right, and doesn't mean it has to be so forever.

In light of a few recent run-ins with despicable characters, I think this video should be distributed to all businesses world wide, as a reminder that it is not too late to turn the commercial hell enveloping us into a force for good.

Now it is time to go back to pissing in the wind, banging my head against a wall, striving in vain to use satire to shame the world into being more consistent.

Happy holidays to those over sensitive folks offended by the word Christmas.