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The History of Christmas at the White House

by John Cole|  December 24, 20099:40 am| 10 Comments

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Here is a great piece on the history of Christmas celebration at the White House that I think a lot of you will really enjoy. I did.

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10Comments

  1. 1.

    Ugh

    December 24, 2009 at 9:44 am

    I’m still recovering from the feats of strength.

  2. 2.

    arguingwithsignposts

    December 24, 2009 at 9:56 am

    The scary smudge.

    ETA: For the cuteness factor.

  3. 3.

    SGEW

    December 24, 2009 at 9:59 am

    The scary smudge.

    Rawrr! Oh, that is too much, really. (by which I mean moar plz)

  4. 4.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    December 24, 2009 at 10:16 am

    @arguingwithsignposts: She be ‘dorable.

  5. 5.

    tamied

    December 24, 2009 at 10:34 am

    @arguingwithsignposts: She’s doing her pirate imitation there, isn’t she?

  6. 6.

    jeffreyw

    December 24, 2009 at 10:52 am

    @arguingwithsignposts: classic pose, take yerself to lolcat and make a caption

  7. 7.

    tamied

    December 24, 2009 at 11:03 am

    BTW John, I loved this link and plan to do more exploring there over the weekend.

  8. 8.

    toujoursdan

    December 24, 2009 at 11:07 am

    If you are a lover of choral music in the British tradition, the BBC is carrying King’s College Cambridge’s Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols now.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/audioconsole/?stream=live

  9. 9.

    D-Chance.

    December 24, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    Looks like things are finally winding down… everything except a couple of 24/7s are now closed (except WallyWorld, which will follow suit at 8).

    I’m just looking at the weather outside. Low temp was in the 60s Tuesday morn. Yesterday, a tornado touched down less than 7 miles away from the shack. Right now, 34 degrees and a light flurry of snow, on its way to the low 20s night.

    Way back when I was a child, we had “blue laws”, whereby most business were forced to close on Sundays. Maybe those days weren’t so bad. Perhaps we need something like that today. One day a week where everyone is force to shut down and take a breather… a break from the 24/7/365 madness of the societal monster we’ve created.

  10. 10.

    Platonicspoof

    December 24, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    Balloon-Juice doesn’t have snowflakes floating down across the page.
    John Cole hates Festivus.

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