First things first: Merry Christmas eve to you, I keep hearing these O’Reilly inspired conservatives yammering on about how they’re so oppressed and not allowed to say “Merry Christmas” and evil lib’ruls like me want to rub out “Merry Christmas” forever.
Right. And may all your Christmases be white.
In addition to a visit from the jolly […]

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Christmas season has been particularly heinous this year. The snow didn’t help.
Light blogging over the next week or so. Read Glenn Greenwald’s “The Underlying Divisions in the Health Care Debate” - the cratering of the left, the “virtually complete dominance of government by large corporations, even a merger between the two” - strong stuff. But […]

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And here I thought the tea partiers were into less government.

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Been taken aback this holiday season at the aggressiveness of some retailers - J.C. Penney and Land’s End in particular. We must get a new circular in the mail from J.C. Penney every other day; and after buying a few Land’s End items online, I literally receive at least one e-mail from Land’s End per […]

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