I have often sent you to read the Huffington Post columns of my buddy Robert J. Elisberg — or "Bob," as his closest friends have come to call him. His columns are perceptive and I don't just say that because he usually agrees with me…though that would be reason enough. I think he just sees the world in a wise, pragmatic way. One of the reasons we are in agreeance is because he causes me to say, "Hey, Bob's right about that." I also like his writing when we don't agree.
Bob writes things other than Huffington Post columns. He writes screenplays and now he's written a book that would make a dandy holiday gift for someone you kinda like but don't want to spend a lot of money on. You can also give it to people you like but give them something else, as well.
What is this book? Why, it's the long-awaited sequel to A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In it, Ol' Ebenezer Scrooge has finally decreased the surplus population (i.e., died) and left his business to Bob Cratchit who runs it promptly into the ground. This leads to a return by Scrooge in ghost form and…well, get a copy and read what Bob (Elisberg, not Cratchit) has done. You can buy a Kindle edition or you can buy a printed-on-that-paper-stuff edition but get one soon. Elisberg has done a great job here and there are only so many shopping days 'til Christmas!