I think Scrooge had it all wrong. Christmas isn't a waste of time. It's a waste a season. Sure that the winter months sucks and any excuse to party is better than no excuse at all. It's just isn't happen for me. Hard to get into the festive mood when you're in the funk. The long dull dreary teatime of the soul. Much of the world is in this funk and I wish it would stop. So Greece defaults? It's the end of the world? Hardly. Economists go on... blah blah blah. Is it Greece deflaunt or all this talk on how bad it will be if they do that is causing global insecurity? The fear of something going to be bad is worse than it simply being bad.
The moral? Shut off the news and have a merry xmas in spite of it all.