Is it morally permissible to use the same New Year’s resolution as 2011? Because I am. You too may have recently made a New Year’s resolution and are ruminating and formulating a plan of action. Or you are obstinate about the idea and enjoy sitting in your couch of comfort. Or you may have just awakened from a bleary-eyed “slumber” and are realizing just now that it is 2012.

Driving on Interstate 5 past the Tacoma Dome, it is hard to miss the bright and blinking reader board sign. Currently, the sign blinks graduation dates of local learning institutions.