Student remembers meaning of Thanksgiving
COMMENTARY
Christopher Suffron

I love Thanksgiving. What could be better than getting together with your family and eating until you burst? Unfortunately, Thanksgiving has largely become a forgotten holiday. It has been swallowed up by the huge commercialization of Christmas, or I guess I should say the “holiday season.” This is truly tragic because the principle behind Thanksgiving is an important one. It does us all good to stop and count our blessings, to name them one by one and see what God has done for us.

In case you cannot find something to be thankful for in the midst of projects and tests, here are a few things that we can all be thankful for this year.

“Spiderman.” This was truly a great film. I had not enjoyed myself that much in movie theater since I saw “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” with my brothers and we sat there singing along with the movie the whole time.

Baseball players did not strike. Not that they didn’t have the right to seeing as how the owners were making ridiculous demands as they always do. The lack of a player strike allowed for a quite entertaining postseason that none of you watched.

The New York Yankees did not win the World Series. Perhaps this is why the postseason was so enjoyable. I can’t describe to you how stunned with joy I was when the Yankees got knocked out in the first round.

The Republicans took over the Senate. Contrary to what Mr. James Zwilling would have you believe in a previous editorial, this was actually a good thing. With the Republicans back in control of Congress, maybe we can finally pass the ban on partial-birth abortion. The Democrats have been refusing to look at Republican bills out of the House of Representative and have dragged their feet on approving the president’s qualified nominees for federal judges simply because they are Republicans.

Albertson’s is still in business in Fort Worth, even though it went out of business in the Houston-area. I like getting groceries at Albertson’s because they have the cheapest milk.

TCU can’t raise tuition at the semester. Believe me, if they could they would. My freshman year, tuition was $365 an hour. Now it is $455 an hour, an increase of $90 an hour. For 15 hours that is an increase of $1,350 a semester, $2700 a year or nearly 25 percent. This is only over four years. That my dear friends is ridiculous.

Well, that should get everyone started on their list of things for which to be thankful. In all seriousness, do not forget to take the time to remember all the good things in your life and thank God for them. After all, you have two entire days off of school, what else would you do with so much time?

Christopher Suffron is a senior accounting major from League City.