Same Shit - Different Year

I don't know why they have New Years in the dead of winter anyway.  It would make more sense to have it in the spring when there's actually something new going on.  Of course, then they would have to decide when to officially call it spring.  Certainly not on the Vernal Equinox, which is about when winter starts winding down, but is still a long way from being over with.  May 1st might be a good time, since the Commies are no longer using it to signify anything.  Truth be known, the Commies didn't invent May Day anyway, they copied it from European folklore and corrupted it to suit their own nefarious purposes.  With the Commies out of the picture, now might be a good time for the good people to reclaim May Day.  

I heard on the news the other day that 2020 will be the start of a new decade, which is not true.   It's actually the last year of the old decade, just like 2000 was the last year of the 20th Century and the Second Millennium A.D.  And what's with this A.D. anyway?  B.C. stands for Before Christ, which I understand because it's in English.  I have been told that A.D. is in Latin and stands for "The Year of Our Lord", which is false because most historians agree that Jesus was born around 4 A.D.  I suppose people were confused in those days because the B.C. years were numbered backwards and they were about to run out of numbers.  They never did get down to zero though, which is why 1000 A.D. was the last year the First Millennium and not the first year of the Second Millennium.  Come to think of it, 1000 B.C. must have been the first year of the last B.C. Millennium as well, although people might not have realized that because they had no way of knowing that there would be no year zero.  Then again, many people might have reasonably believed that the End of the World would come when they ran out of numbers and that Somebody would show up and rewind the clock just in time so the world could start all over again.  In retrospect, it couldn't have been Jesus because He arrived four years too late to do that job.  Apparently, whoever did do it had the good sense to run the numbers forwards instead of backwards this time. which was probably a good thing.