…what global eKonomic slump?… international Kredit Krunch?… no such thing, Mabel… I have the proof right here in my email inbox… it looks to me as if the idea of the January sales has caught hold in those much-maligned centres of benevolence… the givers-away-of-vast-fortunes-to-random-emailees… the splendid charitable folks from places with names with up to a dozen vowels and a coupla consonants… or vice versa, monikers with seventeen consonants and a solo vowel… my inbox today is overflowing with two dozen assorted offers to receive anywhere from USD 6.5 million to USD 13.75 million… anything less than that’s hardly worth clicking a response for… my plethora of prospective piggy-bank regenerators include the usual suspects… widows of collectively deceased military personnel, usually at least generals… there must have been a universal epidemic that targets only those high-ranking officers… then there’s the generosity of myriad accountants, lawyers, auditors, and will-executors…