On New Year’s Resolutions
"People who consider themselves sophisticated tend to disparage the making of New Year's resolutions. ('My resolution is not to make resolutions' is surely the most irritating rejoinder since the deeply annoying 'Let's not and say we did.') But it's easy to see why the snobs wince," columnist Mark Leyner wrote for TIME in 1999. "Yes, New Year's resolutions are glib, sanctimonious and self-serving. Yes, they are the haiku of holiday kitsch. But isn't glib, sanctimonious, self-serving kitsch the glue that holds us together as Americans?"
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