Merry Xmas

 

Where Is The Comma In "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" Supposed To Go?

Wouldn't it be lovely?

Scholars Now Believe Jesus Ignored Magi's Gifts, Just Played With The Boxes They Came In
Link

What happens after Christmas....

Merry Catmus

Wrapped and everything!

Christmas contraceptives

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

Excellent overview of 2014.  Best science photos for 2014.

Weird methane readings on Mars... ALIENS!!!1

Bernie Sanders takes on the Koch brothers.

Saint Ronnie couldn't get elected dog catcher in these interesting teabaggery times...

Tampons may save your life...

If you can erase the word, the action never happened.  Right?

Institutionalized racism is hard to root out.

Chipping away at contraceptives.  And women aren't choosing to have more babies, they're just wiser with their birth control methods.  Cutting through the deliberately confusing terminology used when discussing abortion.

Christmas is coming

My house is a wreck but at least we have the tree up.  Although it IS leaning a bit to the left....

Why is it that my kids' finals and helping research for internships means a pile of files being searched for transcripts and heaps of papers fluttering about while stepping over stacks of books and trying to get Christmas lists filled means finally giving cash to family members instead of trying to make sense of their Amazon wish lists while laundry heaps twitchily become sentient and move slowly towards the door.

At least I got the dishes done.  I couldn't see the faucet.

Merry Christmas

Jesus.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays

Happy Nodwish

Hallelujah

And this [shall be] a sign unto you;

Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger....



What?

Merry Christmas

Happy Holidays whatever....

It's the thought that counts.

Hyuk Hyuk... *cough*

The Onion:

Repeal Of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' Paves Way For Gay Sex Right On Battlefield, Opponents Fantasize

Tom Tomorrow does 2010 pure crazy.

Lindsey Graham rules the Senate by 'hissy fits'.

Praising Barbour. Or not...

DeMint whining about Christmas and having to work and stuff.

And the weirdness of Americans for all to see.... Sorry about that.

Yes, Virginia

There is a Santa Claus.

A reason to throw out that tree

As soon as is possible:



Update 12/26 Watch out for cheap knockoff Christmas lights as well. Often made in China.

'Twas the night before Christmas

Dear Santa

Send jobs.

Why do we do this to our children?

Sitting with Santa for a photo.

I see years of therapy.....

Update: Ina of Unbound Confine has a story.

Update: More with a bunny!

Update: Agi of Guys from Area 51 tells me in comments to not forget the Krampus. Talk about nightmares....

Blog sprinkles

• Rumpus over nuclear warheads in Pakistan:

Nuclear fallout rocks Pakistan
By Syed Saleem Shahzad

ISLAMABAD - Sharp differences between Pakistani leaders over safeguarding the country's nuclear arsenal are placing increasing pressure on the embattled administration of President Asif Ali Zardari.

Zardari is already seriously at odds with the military establishment over dealing with the Taliban-led insurgency and there is a strong likelihood that his government will face a make-or-break test within weeks in the form of mass street protests.

Pakistan has reacted strongly to an article in The New Yorker by investigative reporter Seymour Hersh on November 16, "Defending the arsenal", in which he claimed that Pakistan was discussing "understandings" with the US that could even see specialists take sophisticated nuclear triggers out of the country to prevent them from falling into the wrong hands.

• Excellent Afghanistan Conflict Monitoring site and Pakistan Conflict Monitoring site. And considering the Taliban in Afghanistan.

• When you can have only one child and that one is a girl, you might be tempted to buy a kidnapped boy off the black market.

• Michele Obama talks about the need for dedicated teachers for our economic future.

• Don't talk about pulling the plug on the 'comatose' patient within his hearing...

• What if the earth became hotter by 4 degrees Celsius?

• But who cares about keeping perspective, just frantically buy buy buy!

• JJ of Unrepentant Old Hippie has a suggestion for teabaggers in your family for this War on Christmas season.

• Blue Girl of They Gave Us A Republic: The growing demand on community food pantries.

• Republican distortions.

• Ok, we've got two of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse... Should the two others be Glenn and Rush?

It's obvious that the world needs this:

• 'World's strongest' beer with 32% strength launched