PEEKING AT TREASURE THROUGH A KNOTHOLE: Scott Ott’s Christmas Story.
Archive for 2014
December 25, 2014
‘TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, as edited by a Social Justice Warrior.
SISTERS: Forty Portraits in Forty Years.
MERRY CHRISTMAS: O Come, All Ye Faithful.
WELL, SHE KINDA LOOKS LIKE AN ELF: This Contortionist Has Real Flex Appeal.
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MERRY CHRISTMAS: O Come, O Come Emanuel.
APOLLO 8: Christmas At The Moon.
With my nephew, Harrison.
IN THE MAIL: From William D. Gairdner, The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree.
Okay, this is from a few years ago, but I enjoyed the whole Island Christmas thing!
UPDATE: Is this rampant hyper-masculinity appropriate for Christmas? Sorry if you’re offended by all the testosterone!
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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:
CLAUDIA ROSETT reviews The Interview.
MERRY CHRISTMAS:
Via Molly Lewis. Entire Wade Johnston Christmas Extravaganza here.
IT’S ALWAYS NICE TO MAKE TWITCHY, but it’s especially nice to make it while slamming Nancy Pelosi for hypocrisy on Charlie Rangel’s tax dodging.
THE HORROR: Christmas is filled with one patriarchal construct after another. “Even the secular Christmas songs are ubiquitous in their praise of male characters: ‘Frosty the Snowman,’ ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,’ and of course, Santa Claus. Santa Claus, a white male who, by the way, gets all the credit for labour overwhelmingly done by women.”
Imagine the author in your mind’s eye. Now click through and look at the photo. You were right, weren’t you? And even without this tip at the bottom: “Latham Hunter is a writer and professor of communications and cultural studies.”
Update: Original link is now a 404, but the article and the author’s photo are still online here.
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AT HOME IN THE BAKERY OF THE GODS.
SMART: JetBlue offering free flights to cops to attend slain NYPD officers’ funerals. “The New York-based airline is also working with its partners to have family members of one of the slain officers, Wenjian Liu, flown in from overseas.”
December 24, 2014
THE COUNTRY’S IN THE VERY BEST OF HANDS: U.S. offering $5 million reward for Al Qaeda capo … who was released from Gitmo in 2006.
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