Happy Solstice! Shortest day of the year today, and Pagans and Druids and others, oh my, enjoyed unseasonably warm weather as they danced around Stonehenge.
For we fathers of daughters, it’s time for another round of “Sunrise, sunset.”
Washington Post blogger Alexandra Petri has fixed the Obama’s horrifyingly irreligious and un-American “holiday” card (or so Fox News and Sarah Palin said). That’s the new version above.
Because, you know, President Obama doesn’t know what Christmas is all about.
The New York Times reckons with Newt Gingrich’s concerns that Islamic Shariah law will overrun America like kudzu in a Georgia field.
Rick Santorum is for income inequality because Obama is against it. Pope Benedict XVI is against it too. But the pope is not voting in the Iowa caucuses.
Time to draft Bobby Jindal? Why not?
Apparently Nature is mourning the passing of Kim Jong-Il. Odd snowstorms, glowing mountainsides, and a Manchurian crane adopting a posture of mourning next to a statue of the brutal dictator, er, Great Leader.
“Even the crane seemed to mourn the demise of Kim Jong-il, born of Heaven, after flying down there at dead of cold night, unable to forget him,” reported the state-run media of the officially atheist nation.
Hamas has agreed to join the PLO, a key step toward reconciling with Fatah and unifying the divided Palestinian leadership.
The Israel army has eased travel restrictions on Palestinians for the holiday season.
That news is almost as big as disgraced former Rep. Anthony Weiner and his Muslim wife, Huma Abedin, announcing the birth of a baby boy. And the obvious headline to this story? Yes, The New York Post went there.
In book news: James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and a stalwart of the Christian right, is trying his hand at fiction. As in novels.
The first book of the planned trilogy will be called Fatherless, the other two, Childless and Godless. I sense a theme. They will be set “in a dystopian future world.” As opposed to the dystopian present world Dobson has been talking about all these years.
Meanwhile, Mars Hill pastor and all-around manly man, Mark Driscoll, is writing a book with his wife that aims to “tell the truth about sex,” specifically the details – very detailed details – about the truth of their own sex life. They say they don’t want it to be a “voyeuristic” account. Cha-ching.
Your gift for the third day of Hanukkah, this Tweet from Andy Borowitz:
“Hanukkah is the most American holiday because it’s a celebration of burning oil that we don’t have.”
— David Gibson
