Maybe you agree with an American military presence in certain regions. Maybe you don't.

Churchbells are ringing, doves are cooing and money's changing hands so fast the banks are smoking.

The next time you're preparing a barrage of insults, accusations or demands to hurl at your spouse, kid, best friend, whomever, try this instead: Look the person straight in the eye and say (in the words of Entourage's Ari Gold), "Let's hug it out."

If only we all had personal assistants... someone to make sense of all those paper piles, schlep lunches back from the 12 Blocks Away Cafe and send birthday cards to everyone near and dear to you-on time.