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Saturday, December 25, 2010
 
Overnight


(thanks to freewayblogger)


Friday, December 24, 2010
 
Santa Bomb!

"Tintin" makes some sort of effort at retaliation...

Of course, we have in our arsenal a Hall n' Oates-flavored Sarah Palin spooge-anthem sung by Don Simmons himself.

We are prepared to discuss a schedule for Tintin's reparation payments.


 
Friday Cat Blogging


 
Friday Evening

Go pour yourself some eggnog.

 
More Thread

enjoy.

 
Religion in America

I'd guess there are two main reasons people lie about their degree of religious adherence/church attendance. One is that there are is a lot of cultural pressure equating participation in formal Christian religion with morality. Good people go to church! The other is that a lot of our traditions, despite having secular aspects to them, do have a link to religion, and a lot of people have a hard time decoupling the two. It isn't a problem for me. We celebrated Christmas (tree, gifts and Santa) and Easter (easter egg hunts and chocolate bunny heads) in my non-religious house growing up.

I was chatting about this with Dan Savage once (namedrop alert!!), and he said something along the lines of "non-religious Catholics need to learn how to be Jews," meaning it's possible to hold on to the various rituals and traditions without actually being a believer, as many non-religious Jews do.

 
Lunch Thread

enjoy

 
The Year In Lists

Didn't personally come across an immense amount of good new music this year. The iTunes machine tells me I listened to Dr. Dog's Shame Shame the most, so they win the plug.


 
Virginia Is For Banksters

Somewhere to not buy a house.

Last year, the state legislature overwhelmingly passed a law making it easier for lenders to defend themselves when accused of giving homeowners too little warning of impending foreclosures.

The process moves so quickly in Virginia - one of the fastest states in the nation - that homeowners can receive less than two weeks' notice that their house is about to be sold on the courthouse steps.

That confronts homeowners with an almost impossible deadline. To get a court to stop the sale in that narrow window, they must gather evidence, file a lawsuit and potentially post a bond with the court that could total thousands of dollars. Instead of trying to find a lawyer and prepare a suit, many borrowers run out the clock trying to deal with their lender.

 
Morning Thread

Time to dash out for last minute stuff? Happens every year.


Thursday, December 23, 2010
 
Season's BLEEDINGS!

Because nothing says The Hellidays without a YouTube war, CHECK YER STOCKING, Tintin. Dashing through the snow, with a one horse open SLAY!

Check out the Pam Gellar screech solo...


 
Strange World

Some days I think I'm the only one who has noticed that unemployment is at 9.6%.

Except the unemployed, of course.

 
Flashback

Randomly thought of this for no particular reason.

 
"Confidence"

Also, you know, jobs and incomes.

 
Holiday Schedule

Usual end of the year blog slowdown is here. Will keep posting, just won't be at my computer 12 hours a day like I usually am.


Happy holidays. Better luck next year with the War On Christmas!

 
Afternoon Thread

Any Christmas Eve Eve plans?

 
The Way The World Doesn't Work

As Ireland lights another pile of money on fire, I'm reminded that another way to save the big banks and let rich assholes continue to receive absurd bonuses would have been to give people money to pay down their debts. Banks would have gotten their money, and people would have less debt. This would never happen because it would grossly unfair to help some people so we'll do the fair thing and just give money to rich assholes.

 
But I Thought Harold Ford Was the Junior Senator From New York

One of the silliest made up media narratives was how Gillibrand was a DOOOOOOOOOOMED politician.






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