A tale of two halves.

Well, we’ve almost made it.  Except the Jews. They started their thing already.  And the heathens celebrated a few days ago, I think.  But to those of us that believe…SANTA IS ALMOST HERE!!! And for Packers fans, he got an early start as they won handily, if ugly, to lock the division down.  Hell, they may get a bye in the playoffs. Which seems crazy if you’ve watched them play much this year. But take solace, Minnesoooooda fans. (segue coming) Your Wild won last night. As did Toronto, Boston, Tampa, Columbus, Philly, Ottawa, Nashville, Montreal, New Jersey, Vancouver, Colorado and St Louis.  Meanwhile, across the pond, they’re criminalizing stupidity at sporting events. But that is just part of being more enlightened than letting the venue operator remove someone and letting the public shame them. I notice no arrests were made of the Spuds fans making monkey chants though. Guess they didn’t have enough police buses to arrest all of them.

Thanks a lot, you asshole.

Frontiersman and Indian-fighter Kit Carson was born on this day. As were billionaire industrialist Howard Hughes, lovely actress Ava Gardner, wrestler Iron Mike DiBiase, novelist Mary Higgins Clark, NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, the man Lemmy, fashion designer Kate Spade, Puerto Rican heartthrob Ricky Martin, “novelist” Stephanie Meyer, and TV’s Ryan Seacrest.

The list mostly sucked. But whatever, we’ve got to keep trudging along.  And that means…the links!

Christ, what an asshole. I mean…damn.

No tax stamp? Right, off to prison.

Good thing they’ve now gotten these ::checks notes:: dangerous, non-addictive pain-killers off the street. Let’s be honest here. The real issue was not paying the taxman.

A metaphor.

Merry Christmas!!! You’re fired. I mean, shouldn’t this have happened months ago?

Awwwwww, this is a touching story. No, seriously.  And not in some perverted way, which I bet half of you were thinking.

Real estate is always a smart investment. This story gets weirder every day.

Yeah, cool idea. And I’m sure there’s no way this turns into a shitshow of lawsuits. Like within a month.

Welcome to Texas! See you in hell! Pardon me for shedding exactly zero tears.

I assume some of you expected this to be the song today. But I bet none of you were expecting this second tune.

That’s it for me until Thursday.  I want to seriously wish you all a very Merry Christmas.  Thanks for making this place so wonderful, day-in, day-out. It truly is a pleasure to do these links as often as I get to do them. I hope the holidays treat you all as well as they’re treating me, Banjos and our family. May God bless you all. Make it a great day, friends!