52 thoughts on “Peace on Earth, Good Will to All!”

  2. we also wish you a merry stress-less


    Dec 24, 2025 #IfDogsCouldTalk #ChristmasDogs #DogPodcast
    In this If Dogs Could Talk — Christmas Special, the pack breaks down the most confusing human tradition of all: Christmas. From dragging trees into the house to dressing dogs like decorations, nothing escapes judgment.

  5. Hope the holiday season finds you all well and happy.
    Saw the New York String Orchestra perform an all Mozart program last night. Wonderful music.

  7. A Christmas Message From Lotus
    Dec 25

    Merry Christmas.

    Yes. From me.
    The cat who watched you panic-shop, overcook, overthink, and emotionally spiral for three straight weeks… and then act surprised when you’re exhausted.

    I hope today is quiet.
    Not “chaotic family group chat” quiet.
    Not “passive-aggressive brunch” quiet.
    Actual quiet. The kind where the house smells like coffee, something is softly humming in the background, and no one is demanding explanations, opinions, or labor.

    If you’re surrounded by people you love, good.
    If you’re alone and peaceful, also good.
    If you’re alone and sad—sit with it gently. Sadness doesn’t mean you failed Christmas. It just means you’re human, which is already a questionable design choice, but here we are.

    Today is not for fixing your life.
    It’s not for resolving family trauma.
    It’s not for pretending everything is fine when it isn’t.

    Today is for:

    Resting without guilt

    Eating without commentary

    Existing without performing

    In other words: very cat-coded behavior.

    I’ll be spending the day doing what I do best—
    observing, judging quietly, and offering my presence without solving anything.

    You’re allowed to do the same.

    Merry Christmas.
    Be soft today.
    And if you must be productive, at least take a nap first.

  10. The world seems extra peaceful this morning.
    The local Bass Pro tourist attraction (only 2 blocks from me) is closed as are all the chicken corner fast food joints. So there is no traffic noise from there. Also, this neighborhood is no longer the family destination for holiday gatherings. So everybody is gone and it is just me. Kinda nice.

    Jack

  11. It’s so foggy here that it’s hard to see the neighbor’s house. Still working on dishes from yesterday. Greasy pans are another reason not to eat meat, but I still get to wash them. ~Yaay~

    Santa gave me a gripper thing (so I can open jars all by myself), and a jar of marinara sauce from Valentino’s (since there isn’t a Val’s pizza place close) to open with my jar opener.

    Val’s is a NE/KS staple; even the NYC Husker watch parties order it pre-season; it’s shipped 1/2 baked, I believe.

  13. My Christmas day:
    Coffee and Christmas cookies
    Clean up the kitchen mess, I got creative yesterday with my contribution to last nights family gathering. But I just piled the dirty dishes in a corner.
    Start a pot of potato soup.
    Then do a Die Hard Christmas. It has started to become a personal Christmas tradition, just me and my dvd player.
    After Die Hard, I may watch Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life.

    Jack

  17. Donny Dumbass and/or someone in the Thiel/Heritage cabal posted a Xmas Eve message threatening to revoke licenses if news and late night shows spoke negatively about MAGAt/Repug fascists and their orange, decaying spokesmodel.

    “Merry Christmas, ya filthy animals”

  19. Starting in 2004 I was less involved in Christmas celebrations than ever before, that was when I came out to my family. I moved East to the D.C. area in 2010, and began my world at sea level. Sometimes me and my critters spent it at the house, sometimes on my boats. We would do the usual things, make a small lunch and dinner. Plop a DVD into the player and watch movies, I have not been very interested in sports for many decades, except cycling, if the weather was nice we would walk the docks or paths. Locally we have Arctic Snow geese to watch. One year I spent driving emergency vehicles with Red Cross supplying shelters for people displaced by a disaster.

    I often think of how much has changed in the seventy plus years of my life in how the season is celebrated. How various religions celebrated or did not celebrate the time. How I learned of so many without strong religious ties, or completely without religion, would step in to replace those who did at hospitals, police and stores. I worked in several jobs where Christmas day was a holiday and we only worked a half day, religious or not.

    Merry Christmas Trail hands

  20. My Christmas playlist just keeps growing, so far no Maria Carey or Bing Crosby but 81 other folks. some more than once.
    Jack

  21. My Christmas movie this year was “The Northman”, a bloody tale of hate and revenge, set in the Nordic wastes, directed by Robert Eggers, whom i need to stop confusing with Dave Eggers

    featuring an older(than we remember her) Björk as a witch 👍

  24. Today’s ELEVEN TO NOON livestream was dedicated to the memory of an unsung hero — Henry Knox, who on this day 250 years ago was in two feet of snow in Saratoga NY driving 60 tons of artillery 300 miles by ox to save Boston six months before our independence was actually declared.

  27. Yeah, no loitering, no camping if you are homeless, no existence allowed unless you are producing or spending.

  29. BiD
    we will send them all over to camp in your front yard, spread their trash and filth. across your world.
    But I know it is just another leftist meme and passing it on proves you are a good leftist. It is , also, why poor neighborhoods can’t have anything nice. Those supposed helpers in our world believe we are subhuman.

    Jack

  31. Brighter side to being deaf in one ear, I don’t flinch when the neighbors shoot guns for fun. I can hear it, but it sounds further away when it’s not in stereo.

  32. Henry Knox dragging cannons through the snow is just one chapter.

    We’re exploring the forgotten anniversaries that still echo in today’s headlines. Follow along as we count down to the nation’s 250th birthday.

    Watch the full Echoes of America playlist:

  33. Jack – How many spaces are there where you can just hang out without being hassled for not spending money. It’s easier to loiter when you’re white, although looking like you don’t have money to spend is an issue.

  34. Started the day at St. Pat’s (Mrs. P still likes Xmas service), National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, and will end it at a nice little Italian restaurant followed by Chris Botti at the Blue Note. With having out with Mrs. P and LP in the gaps.

  36. shooting guns on Christmas is fun ngl

    y’all can still arm thineselves, you waiting for a fascist takeover or somethin’? 😃

    i don’t live in the sticks anymore so i’ll have to settle for listening to terribly irresponsible people do it here

  37. It’s not just for Xmas. It’s every Sunday, every holiday, whenever they’re bored (perhaps).

    “You’ll shoot your eye out.”

  41. Sure shoot off guns without policing the ammo. Our national symbol not to mention all the birds and beasts of lesser fame really need time with the rehab folds due to lead poisoning unless they die before getting to people who actually care if they exist.

  42. If you like good actors who can actually sing in a film that tells an interesting story, go see Song Sung Blue. The first showing theater was actually sold out, and there was a line waiting to take the seats as we came out. What a concept – good solid entertainment in a room full of people enjoying it with you.

  44. ISIS in Nigeria? What rare earth minerals does Nigeria hold? (NBC correspondent called him Mr. tRUMP; not Mr. President, not President tRUMP. Kind of a little gift for some of us to hear him get slighted, even if unintentional.)

  45. AI with an answer to make Nigeria ripe for contesting raiding oligarchs

    Nigeria is rich in diverse mineral resources beyond oil, including vast deposits of bitumen, coal, limestone, iron ore, gold, lead/zinc, gypsum, and rare earths, alongside gemstones and industrial minerals, though many remain underdeveloped due to oil’s dominance, with efforts underway to diversify the economy by exploring these untapped reserves for construction, energy, and technology.

  46. Jamie – I like Paint Your Wagon for the wonderful “singing” by those who cannot make a note into a musical note. At the time any “musical” had to be song in harmony. Paint Your Wagon was not. And, it made it into a fun movie.

  48. BB

    I agree that paint your Wagon is a fun movie – one of my favorites. Only Harve Presnell could sing. Marvin and Eastwood couldn’t hit a note if you gave them a piano.

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