14 TERRIBLE TATTOO TRENDS. “One good way of identifying a stupid tattoo trend is if Lindsay Lohan is involved.”

THE HARRY POTTER ECONOMY: J.K. Rowling’s fictional wizard not only created an industry; he has also transformed Hollywood.

NEW YORK TIMES AND L.A. TIMES want Amazon to collect more state taxes.

A TIKOSYN SHORTAGE. “Pfizer is writing to inform you of a shortage of 60 count bottles of TIKOSYN® 250 mcg and 500 mcg. . . . This product shortage is a result of a manufacturing issue and not the result of any efficacy or safety issues with TIKOSYN®. Pfizer is working as quickly as possible to resolve the situation.” This is already causing problems for the Insta-Wife, who needs Tikosyn to live.

JANET NAPOLITANO’S Emily Litella moment.

XENI JARDIN: Do new post-pantsbomber TSA security directives kill inflight WiFi?

TELEGRAPH: UNANSWERED QUESTIONS FOR THE U.N.’S CLIMATE CZAR: “At the least, Dr Rajendra Pachauri’s IPCC position as the world’s ‘top climate official’ has been earning a substantial income for Teri, the institute he runs.”

MORE PEOPLE NOTE Max Baucus’s erratic speech on the Senate floor.

LONDON TIMES: Iran’s Berlin Wall Moment? I hope so.

WHY NEWSPAPERS ARE DYING (CONT’D): The Mark Dayton example.

HECK OF A JOB, HILLARY: State Department ignored warning on Abdulmutallab.

A TOP ROOKIE STOCK CAR RACER at age fourteen.

LESSONS (FOR OBAMA) from Flight 253.

A LOOK AT Ford’s all-new 5.0 V8.

DEMOCRATS GETTING NERVOUS ABOUT “CONTROVERSIAL LEGISLATION.” “It isn’t too late to dump ObamaCare, you know.”

THE 2009 White Collar Crime Awards.

HEH: Peace Prize Winner Launches Covert Yemen War.

AT THE HILL, TALKING ABOUT whether “the system worked.”

IN THE MAIL: Serket’s Movies: Commentary and Trivia on 444 Movies.

BOB OWENS: Quietly, Obama just made it much easier for the International Criminal Court to go after American “war criminals.”

JEFFREY GOLDBERG: The Maddening Stupidity of the TSA Security Burlesque.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Some Modest Obama Predictions.

Plus, a fish, a barrel, a smoking gun: “Indeed, almost everything Yglesias wrote in his short hit piece is untrue or ill-informed. . . . Such a strange phenomenon—as Obama’s polls dive, and the voters begin to see that the centrist moderate, whom they thought in 2008 that they were voting for, is in truth an ideologue, his supporters are reduced to calling critics ‘racialists.’ That is the blueprint for 2010.” I kind of hoped that Yglesias would outgrow the name-calling, but it hasn’t happened yet. . . .

WHY NEWSPAPERS ARE DYING, CONT’D.

LOOKING TO LOSE WEIGHT IN 2010? Check out J.D. Johannes’ Resolutioneers Project.

THINGS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED: The Wade Johnston Christmas Extravaganza.

Patti Smith on what’s happened to Rock & Roll.

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) slams Obama over earmarks.

Resisting government attacks on free markets . . . in North Korea. Now if we could just do so well here!

Lifting caps on federal bailouts for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. On Christmas Eve, in the hope that no one would notice.

More guns, but less crime in 2009.

Obama faces progressive disappointment.

Calls for Janet Napolitano’s resignation.

More fun with hands-on toys for kids.