I recently bought Sufjan Steven’s Christmas Album and just laughed out loud when I noticed the title of the thirty-third song on the album:

“Get Behind Me, Santa”

HAHAHAHAHAHA! And a good song to boot!

A couple of days ago I finished the the last book of the Bean Series that all began with Ender’s Game. The highlights for me were Ender’s Game, Speaker For the Dead, and Ender’s Shadow, the first three I read of the eight book complete set. They were wonderful. Even Xenocide was pretty good, but some of the dialogue in the later books was nearly unbearable, trite. I have read and finished worse books, but like The Matrix, my expectations were set high. Still, I had invested in these characters and I wanted to know. So I finished (apparently there will be more, and I will, undoubtedly, read them) and one of the main things I gleaned from the last few month’s reading, a theme repeated in most of the Bean series, which I learned from Ender’s Game, is this: Love your enemy, so that you may destroy him completely.

…That’s in the Bible, isn’t it?