2007 RESOLUTIONS We Resolve to Burst Out Laughing. Or at least make the disturbing sounds they say Crazy Horse made when he galloped into the center of Custer's force and the bullets began to slow down... We Will Remember to Forget and then Get It Quick. In the coming year the battle will form in the air around us and there will be a moment when nothing we see is
	recognizable. Volcanoes will spit snow. Democrats will hunt for the Old Deal and love the Bomb. The poisoned heroes of 9/11 will appear in the doorway. We Promise to Protect Evo Morales. Protect Wangari Maathai. Protect Aung San Suu Kyi. Protect Bruce Utah Phillips and the pontificating citizen sitting next to us on the train. Protect the people of the Common Ground Collective in New Orleans. This year, they will make our news. And we resolve to protect the next Rosa Parks from strategic erasure by the commercial press. We will Notice when the Word Democracy is made of Gameboy Pixels. Try to catch the impossible irony in mid-air: When a supermodel says "Justice!" through bee-stung lips and cradles an orphan to make an ad for a sweatshop company. When a transnational demi-god studies the Freedom Summer press conferences to get his moral tone just right. This year, we resolve to keep the smiling logo off Dr. King's tomb by keeping Wal-Mart out of our neighborhood. We will Laugh Again, Laugh Radically, like James Brown cries on his knees, like Brad Will witnesses Oaxaca and Eric Ng rides in the bike lane and Sean Bell toasts to his wedding tomorrow and Carmen Rubio gardens with magic children and Coretta Scott King keeps the dream today and Jane Jacobs laughs in her funky neighborhood and Hal the Central Park Coyote escapes again and again... We Ask that all the Crazy Horses of Last Year Laugh with us Now, ride with us straight into the center of the force that expected to entertain us to death. HA HA HA LUJAH!