Each of my six employees just got a $60 box of Belgian chocolates. Some years I do more but it's been a tough year. 40 some years ago UPS gave us Christmas turkeys. During my time in the Navy they occasionally allowed us to have our birthdays, then again they often didn't.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.