Relentlessly negative

JFC, said everybody, did you ever see a bigger bunch of cuts?

Negative yesterday, negative today.

Negative all year, according to one departing reader telling me I’ve grown strident and predictable. Fair enough. If it’s any help, every time I go to write about a certain topic that begins with C and ends with arrrrs, I do brace myself and ask: Again? Are you sure?

Perhaps if one can't say anything nice about the g…