Mostly continuing the holiday break...

WE'RE MOSTLY CONTINUING our holiday slowdown, but here's a question some readers might be able to help with:

Is there something in the official MSM Journalism Handbook that requires endless, tiresome, repetitive end-of-decade/looking-ahead summaries* the entire week leading up to the new year?

* Don't get us wrong -- we can imagine certain area bloggers doing great things with such a roundup, especially compared to this.