Toasting 2004

We’re back from a fine holiday. Over the last two weeks, we’ve read year-end travel wrap-ups in various newspapers. Our favorite had to be Thomas Swick’s drinking-song toast to the new year, which appeared in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Travel section. You can’t help but like a song that rhymes “axis of evil” with “Fuzzy Navel.” The song concludes: “So let’s coax olive branches from all the world’s meanies / And then air-drop the olives into a million martinis.” We’ll drink to that.

©2026 World Hum, All Rights Reserved