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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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
An almost top 10,000 blog!
You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.
The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.
Let’s finish the job.
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.
Technically true, but collectively nonsense
It’s the corruption, stupid.
When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?
Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?
Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.
This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.
Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.
It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.
The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.
… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP
“Squeaker” McCarthy
Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.
Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.
Black Jesus loves a paper trail.
Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.
Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.
Ugh
I’m still recovering from the feats of strength.
arguingwithsignposts
The scary smudge.
ETA: For the cuteness factor.
SGEW
Rawrr! Oh, that is too much, really. (by which I mean moar plz)
Bad Horse's Filly
@arguingwithsignposts: She be ‘dorable.
tamied
@arguingwithsignposts: She’s doing her pirate imitation there, isn’t she?
jeffreyw
@arguingwithsignposts: classic pose, take yerself to lolcat and make a caption
tamied
BTW John, I loved this link and plan to do more exploring there over the weekend.
toujoursdan
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
D-Chance.
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.
Platonicspoof
Balloon-Juice doesn’t have snowflakes floating down across the page.
John Cole hates Festivus.