Greg Maresca ——Bio and Archives--January 1, 2026

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Like every year before it, 2026 enters convinced it can enhance the world simply by clocking in. History’s familiar cycle of innovation and transformation will dutifully churn on, ensuring things stay interesting while we collectively uphold humankind’s tradition of learning absolutely nothing from the years that came before.

In the new year, even death will come with an itemized bill. Why sit around waiting for business when you can manufacture demand yourself? One Canadian funeral home has embraced the entrepreneurial spirit by adding room rentals for assisted suicide to its service menu. For $700, you can book a private suite to end your life before seamlessly transitioning to your reserved spot in the home’s basement morgue. It is 2026’s version of a onestop shop until you drop – permanently.

“The Charlie Kirk Effect” is not a Christian cultural earthquake, but a brief tremor that will fizzle out just like all that post 9/11 patriotism. Such a spiritual awareness and a rejection of some awful ideas (like the preceding paragraph) that poison our........

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