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MAO’S FACE ON OBAMA’S BALL: New Old News Feed (December 28, 2009)

Posted in News, tagged , , , , on December 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

I asked for a football, but instead I got this missing child they just found on Christmas day. Cool, I guess… “It is rare in stranger abduction cases [that] so much time can pass without a tragic ending. This was truly a Christmas miracle.” A miracle? Jesus walked on water, healed the blind with dirt [...]

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Merry merry to all you merries!

Posted in Holidays, tagged , on December 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Charlie Brown: I just don’t understand Christmas, I guess. I like getting presents and sending Christmas cards and decorating trees and all that, but I’m still not happy. I always end up feeling depressed. Linus Van Pelt: Charlie Brown, you’re the only person I know who can take a wonderful season like Christmas and turn [...]

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ALIENS INVADE ALASKA!!! New Old News Feed (December 21, 2009)

Posted in News, tagged , on December 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

4-year-old boy gets wasted, steals Christmas gifts, throws on a dress, and stumbles around the town drunk as a peasant. And all before the 25th! WTF?! Hayden runs away “trying to find his father,” Wright said. “He wants to get in trouble so he can go to jail because that’s where his daddy is.” Plus: [...]

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MERRY PRESENTMAS: Mother & Daughter agree on the real meaning of Christmas, By Myra Eddy

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , , on December 20, 2009 | 1 Comment »

Last week, I sat down with my daughter to have a heart-to-heart about Christmas. She’s nine now, and it was time to break the news. “Did you know, kid, that Christmas is actually about Jesus?” From the blank look on her face, I could tell she didn’t. “The reason people celebrate Christmas is because it’s [...]

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GIFTS & GIVING: “The Gift,” by Blake Seidenshaw

Posted in Series, tagged , , , , , on December 15, 2009 | 7 Comments »

Like all gifts, the gift of giving is as much for the giver as for the receiver. This paradox is especially true of homemade gifts. The modern tradition of purchasing pre-made gifts arises from our tendency to want to really give something to the receiver. Interacting through the medium of money, however, severs the giver, [...]

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NEW OLD HOLIDAY NEWS FEED (Dec 8, 2009)

Posted in News, tagged , , , , , , , on December 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Links provided by the lovely Ernski. Elf tells mall Santa that he’s carrying dynamite. “Santa notified mall security and Morrow police quickly arrested the 5 feet tall, 108 pound Caldwell.” Tall elf. Shorter man. Plus: Jews Gone Wild, Christmas Trees for a cool mil., annoying people saying annoying things, fruit cake, and more!!! All after [...]

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WHEN KRAMPUS RULED CHRISTMAS

Posted in Holidays, tagged , , , , , on December 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Our friends in the Moorish Orthodox Church hipped us to a resurgence in Krampus appreciation over in Europe. Krampus, by the way, is Santa’s naughty counterpart, and according to one MOCer has a “predilection for sex with women and especially enjoys whipping their buttocks with a birch switch.” Dee-lish! A new article in Reason by [...]

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NEW OLD HOLIDAY NEWS FEED (Dec 1, 2009)

Posted in News, tagged , , , on December 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Man “hates Christmas,” steals Salvation Army fund-raising kettle “…he pushed her down and said, ‘I can’t stand you and your bell-ringing. I hate Christmas’.” More news after the break, including laser hamsters, anti-holiday cheer pirates, and Charlie Brown!

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