The Guild sells out!
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View ArticleWhy this is the best Christmas ever
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Don’t shoot your eye out!
An amusing little time-waster. H/T to Jason Ciastko for the link. Update: I didn’t do as well as Liam did (in the comments), but he’s right that the upper left seems to provide much more opportunity...
View ArticleAtheist’s seasonal dilemmas
David Harsanyi looks at the plight of the non-believer during the Christmas season: Unlike many of my fellow atheists, however, I’m not a fundamentalist on the issue of nonbelief. Though my rock-ribbed...
View ArticleMerry Christmas, everyone
Normal-ish blogging will resume in a day or two . . . in the meantime, what are you doing reading blogs? Go enjoy yourself! Related posts: Sorry for the lack of posts over the weekend On the road again...
View ArticleCanadian retailers are “furious” at customers for looking to the US for...
A brief filler piece on the Canadian Press newswire explains only part of the reason so many Canadian shoppers are headed south to do their Christmas shopping this year: This is Black Friday in the...
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Happy holiday travels!
H/T to Economicrot. Many many more at the link. Related posts: QotD: Remaking Gulliver’s Travels Happy Creation Day, Earth! Happy 5th anniversary to Gods of the Copybook Headings
View ArticleReindeer determined to shed that pesky “child-friendly” reputation
Joe Fay reports on an unpleasant meeting between rambler and reindeer: Children are advised to hide under the duvet if they hear sleighbells this Christmas Eve, after it emerged that reindeers appear...
View ArticleThe economics of Ebenezer Scrooge
Russell D. Longcore looks at the economics underlying Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol: Next we are introduced to Scrooge’s philosophy on celebrating Christmas. His nephew greets him warmly with a...
View ArticleMegan McArdle’s annual Kitchen Gift Guide
I don’t cook, except for very basic things, so this isn’t the sort of list I’d be able to compile for myself. Megan has been doing it for several years: Yes, it’s that time of year again. Back by...
View ArticleThis is a sign of a slow news week
When the National Post carries a story about someone purloining one of the wise men figures from a church in Brooklin: Durham Region police reported that the 6′ x 3′ plywood cutout of one of the Three...
View ArticleThat’s not an elaborate Christmas display. This is an elaborate Christmas...
PC World says: Turner calls the game “Snowball Blaster.” If you help Santa dodge all the snowballs, you get a special lights display. Passers-by can hop into the “blaster” unit and use a controller to...
View Article‘Tis the season to hate the senders of boastful holiday letters
Gregg Easterbrook receives the perfect, perfect holiday letter: Don’t you hate boastful holidays letters about other people’s fascinating lives and perfect children? Below is one Nan and I received...
View ArticleQotD: A Christmas Carol
It’s Christmas time, and that means it’s time to enjoy A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens’ melancholy tale of a productive businessman who gets worked over by three meddling supernatural social...
View ArticleNot everyone can get into the Christmas spirit
Ethan Greenhart wants to rename Christmas as “Turkey Genocide Day”: Just as there’s nothing civilised about organising society around the wants of Gaia-mauling human beings, and nothing green about...
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Hey Kids! Did you get your paperwork in on time?
If you hurry, you can just get your Santa’s Visit Application in before the deadline tonight! Related posts: Hey kids, are your parents uptight about you having sex? See? Anti-drug education is finally...
View ArticleMerry Christmas!
Among my gifts this year, I received the H.L. Mencken collection Prejudices, so I’ve got lots to read over the next few days. I also received the “Yes, Minister” and “Yes, Prime Minister” DVD...
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“An ‘American tradition’ is anything that happened to a baby boomer twice”
Hard to refute the latest xkcd take on Christmas music: Related posts: I’ve always been really bad with names QotD: A Christmas Carol Beating up on the Boomer generation
View ArticleA very Calvin & Hobbes Christmas
H/T to Chris Myrick for the link. Related posts: Time perspectives Not everyone can get into the Christmas spirit Something else for your Christmas list
View ArticleReason.TV: Christopher Hitchens – Bah, Humbug on Christmas
Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011. I’m saddened to write that the great essayist and writer Christopher Hitchens is dead at the age of 62. He had been weakened by the cancer of the esophagus that he...
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