Democrats denounced Ebenezer Scrooge as an exploiter. Conservatives pointed to him as an example of private enterprise in action and proposed tax breaks to stimulate job production. In a modern version of the Dickens “Christmas Carol”, Scrooge gets wage concessions from Bob Crachit after threatening to move his operations to Mexico. Crachit has to take another job as a greeter at WalMart to help pay Tiny Tim’s medical bills.… A sales team that missed its goal of increasing revenue by 4 percent didn’t get to go to Hawaii. But because they did grow sales by 2 percent they were rewarded with a junket to Fargo, N.D., That explains all those trips to Fargo by Great Plains resellers. … There’s a new law being proposed to control childhood obesity, it’s known as the “No Child’s Behind Left Law.” … I’m really behind on the times. Someone asked me, “Have you seen Angry Birds?” I told them, “No but I’ve run into some pretty irritated ones.” … A Christmas-time news item reported there have been fewer executions in the United States because of the cost of drugs for lethal injection and the overall expense of capital punishment. I think this would could be outsourced to some of the Christian militias to give them target practice and something to justify their existence.