I believe all elected officials should take office on Christmas morning so we can greet them with a child’s wide smile and not the guilty, greenish grimace of the just-into-the new-year adult. Besides, if the new officials take office on Christmas morning, everyone can go to church right after, which is a darn good idea. I have advice for the newly elected officials, those chosen by an ever-diminishing pool of voters to fill the vacuum, I mean to serve the people.