Here's To Hoping

I'm sitting here, amidst holiday decorations, reading the news in my RSS reader. My topics are science, LGBT issues, politics, and tasers. The DJ on my radio is predicting a winter storm for tomorrow. I'd love to have snow on the ground for Christmas. I'm also hoping that no one has to experience a taser-proximal death this holiday season or in the coming new year. That might be too large a wish in total, but is it too much to hope that, in what remains of 2008, no one else dies after being tased?