One thoughtful New Year's Resolution from Mark Morford:

"Enough with divisiveness. Enough with useless and simpleminded, black-and-white dualities: blue versus red, Dem versus Repub, good versus evil, salt versus pepper, God versus Allah, Lindsay versus Hillary. Enough with GOP-bred ideologies that only polarize and demean and reduce down the gorgeous messy kaleidoscopic complexities of the human drama into ignorant and childlike simplicities that contain no art or spirit or soul. Then again, the nation has never felt quite so divided, so alienated from its original founding ideology, its own heart. Thanks to the Bush-brand GOP fear machine, there is now much truth to the fact that progressive culturally astute blue American cities and college towns are now quite ideologically separate from the red culturally bereft God-drunk welfare states. Yet, the wise ones say that the only way to progress is to find common ground, shared humanity. Either that, or nuclear civil war. Resolve to relish this painful contradiction and figure out a way to use it to your advantage."

Or move to Canada.