Best wishes for a good 2017 to TrumpDiplomacy, Silverboy, Fifi, Heretosay, Turnoi, Taffy, Caring, Foxy, BeenThere, Arthur, all the frequent posters on this board and all the visitors: 2017 can be better if we unite and work to make it better.

Happy New Year to all!

[2016] was bad. But to avoid the poles of despair and denial, it would help to have a frame of mind, a perspective with which to consider the year gone by. And with it, a sober but bracing way to meet the headwinds and miseries that await in 2017. It could be this: a recognition of the power of unity, of drawing close, and of speaking out. Of the strength that solidarity wielded in 2016, over and over.