Finally, an end to the BCS system. May it rest in peace.

Playoffs have crowned a champion and marked an end to seasons from sports like baseball to curling.

Until a solution was formed in June, college football was the exception. It took commissioners less than three hours to deliberate the decision to have a playoff system. That’s how bad our current system is.

This is huge for college football. The result is a manageable, logical and long overdue playoff system that fans have waited on for years.

It may sound shocking to say that I’m thankful for the “1 percent.” But I am. One of many wise things I learned from my parents is to always be thankful for the blessings you have, because you never know when they will be taken away.

It’s easy to succumb to the temptation of demonizing rich people simply because they have more money, better seats for the football game and nicer cars. We are all guilty of it at some point.

The media does it when they talk about Mitt Romney as a “vampire capitalist,” while claiming his millions in charitable donations were “ungenerous” because they mostly went to the Mormon church.

The Occupy movement does it when they implore us to “eat the rich.”

As Thanksgiving season ends abruptly like it does every year, we are all reminded of the harsh consumerism that inevitably surrounds the Christmas season. But Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year, right?

Wrong.

Thanksgiving is the best time of the year. The meaning of Thanksgiving has not changed. Being thankful is in the forefront of people’s minds as they joyfully join their family for a feast. Every American can celebrate because we all have things we’re thankful for.

For Christians, Christmas is supposed to be about remembering and celebrating the birth of Christ. Unfortunately, Christmas is now about spending money. The meaning has been bastardized, and few think about the birth of Christ as they marvel at their new video games.

Regarding the Nov. 14 letter “Liberal culture of hate to blame for political division” sent by William C. VanRonzelen IV:

William, I read your letter, and I noticed it looked remarkably similar to what I have found, and read about for quite some time now.

The main difference is that the parties are switched.

Regarding the Nov 14 letter “Liberal culture of hate to blame for political division.”

I normally don’t go out of my way to respond to Lariat articles like this, but your opinion piece really made me reel back.

Having been a Christian for 22 years of my life before finally letting my faith go, I can’t help but notice how easy my life had been.

In the aftermath of the election a lot of speculation has come from all sides as to exactly why the election wasn’t as close as it could have been.

And it wasn’t.

All the polls had Romney and Obama in a dead heat. Many politicos and analysts were predicting the various ways that they would tie.

And then they didn’t.