December 25, 2024

Merry Christmas!

Talk about whatever you like, especially Christmas. Whether you like it or not, you still might like talking about it.

49 comments:

Patrick said...

Merry Christmas! Love Harry Connick.

Peachy said...

Merry Christmas everyone!

Robin Goodfellow said...

Merry Christmas to all!

wild chicken said...

they cut the piano solo a bit short lol. Anyway Merry Christmas

BUMBLE BEE said...

Luciano has one too..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7qmTGuz5A

BUMBLE BEE said...

Greg Lake and Ian Anderson...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6-PAKOt7sM

Michael P said...

Merry Christmas! May we all (find reasons to) be kinder to others this coming year.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Like the wise Jordan Peterson said - I like it, and I don’t like it.

The Drill SGT said...

Best of the Wexford Carol
https://youtu.be/yxDZjg_Igoc

Liam Ryan said...

Merry christmas
Anyone like Ding! dong! merrily on high ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OppQRVsdkNs

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Harry’s “What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?” was too slow to include in my perfect playlist. I already had a couple slow songs like Chrissie Hynde “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” and “Toy Land” and “The Christmas Song” with Ray Charles. You gotta mix it up between slow and faster than slow.

RCOCEAN II said...

Merry Christmas. Great music. We're listening to Michael Buble and Diana Krall. Also on the record player: Etta James - Merry Christmas, Baby. And Doris Day. Her "Toyland" is fantastic.

Rusty said...

......................Nah.

Iman said...

Merry Christmas to all! Looking forward to a brighter 2025… one that’s brighter, but not glowing.

Narr said...

My wife--the Christmas lover of the two of us--has so much to do to prepare for a few visitors that she had to delegate some vacuuming duties to me. It does no good to tell her that our guests won't much notice or care, and I suppose some house-cleaning is due, anyway.

But on Christmas morning? Bah, humbug!

Dude1394 said...

Merry Christmas Dr. Althouse and Meade, you still are my first stop in the moring.

doctrev said...

Merry Christmas to all. Say what you want, some holidays are incredibly unifying of a broad variety of people. Even those who might otherwise be enemies.

Big Mike said...

For me Christmas has always been about family and kids, especially kids. And since the weekend we've had younger son, his lovely wife, and their "three under three" kids. And it's been wonderful! Older son, his lovely wife, and the world's smartest and prettiest granddaughter (not that I'm biased) will show up as younger son and his family leave.

I'm in heaven

tcrosse said...

Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage

Paddy O said...
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Paddy O said...

Before we were married my now wife put together a Christmas album with some originals and some classics: Merry Christmas, Althousia!

RCOCEAN II said...

Y'know, 40 years ago hearing someone be contrarian about Christmas and being a scrooge and a grump was somewhat interesting. But after 40 years of hearing it, I'd wish they'd just shut up. There are certain people who think of themselves as "rebels" and "non-conformists" - and they're not. Just pushing the same ol' crap. And conforming to the NYT-Guardian POV.

So, Merry Christmas. And shut up.

RCOCEAN II said...

Fortunately, the "As an Athiest...." crap seems to have died down and so has the "Achually, Christmas is a ......."

Christopher B said...

Merry Christmas!

Lawnerd said...

Merry Christmas Professor! Best damn blog in the universe!

narciso said...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqGlEAX80UM&t=96s

Tina Trent said...

Yeah. Meanwhile the Times os featuring Kwanzaa, a made-up holiday by cop-killing radicals that embarrasses most black Christians.

Jimmy said...

A very Merry Christmas to this salon. And to our proprietors Ann and Meade. Best wishes to all

NKP said...

Koppangen (English version). Anne Sophie Von Otter.
Most moving Christmas song by a. Swedish Atheist ever.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_me2sZlpqb8o10eJ277jTPYIMServlGKlA&feature=shared

lonejustice said...

Today, Christmas Day, is also the First Day of Hanukkah this year. This is a pretty learned group here, so probably most people know the origin of Hanukkah, but if you don't, or want to be reminded, here's a short history lesson by a rabbi that I follow. The first 1 minute and 25 seconds of the video is a fundraising appeal for American Friends of Meir Panim, an Israeli charity that I support, but you can fast forward through it to get to the short history lesson:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBFuWlBYddE

Aggie said...

Looks like old Santa Joe has left a little something in some corporate stockings this year, for Pfizer and Moderna. The rest of you tightwad pharmas are on your own.....

lonejustice said...

I know this is not in the spirit of Christmas, but go fuck yourself.

Maynard said...

What is the matter with you RC? That is really fucked up.

FWBuff said...

Merry Christmas!

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Our area is thriving with Central American cleaning ladies. I believe nobody cleans their own house down here north east Georgia.

narciso said...

And casting doubt on Marys purity and Jesus nature by proxy

gilbar said...

How dare we speak Merry Christmas!

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Reddit: I thought it was an Asian woman that was burned alive in the NYC subway

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

my assumption may have been spawn by the anti-asian wave in NYC a few years ago.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

YouTube: An exploration of whether mass extinction events lead to a higher likelihood of intelligence and complexity of life on earth and exoplanets.

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

YouTube: Dillon Explains 'The Costco Family'

"They bring the boom" 😆

Lem Vibe Bandit said...

Speaking of the drones, John Michael Godier has a perfectly reasonable explanation for the drones: The Last Days of the Drone Flaps

TickTock said...

RC, a few individuals have an inner need to be despised by others. Are you one of those?

Kate said...

I already have "Toyland" and Buble in my mix, but I hadn't heard the Etta James. Added. Wonderfully jazzy.

wendybar said...

Back to reality...

"A minimum requirement for earning forgiveness is a confession of wrongdoing. The Democrats and their allies are now terrified that they’re going to be held to account for their hideous wrongdoing, but are they admitting that they were wrong? Have you seen any of them concede that maybe it was a bad idea to use the government to censor and oppress their political opponents? Are any of them saying, “You know, it was wrong of us to manipulate the justice system to create two tracks, one for leftists and another for Trump-affiliated defendants, with the Trump-affiliated defendants being denied bail, tortured in jail, and sentenced to lengthy terms based on shaky legal theories, while leftist were not even charged?” Where are the Covid people admitting that they were totally wrong? They aren’t doing that. That’s because they don’t think they did anything wrong."

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2024/12/26/since-when-did-we-republicans-start-being-against-punishing-criminals-n2649448

Eva Marie said...

“The Democrats and their allies are now terrified that they’re going to be held to account for their hideous wrongdoing, but are they admitting that they were wrong?”
Did the Democrats ever apologize for supporting slavery?
Have they ever apologized for keeping Robert Byrd (a former ‘exalted cyclops' of the Ku Klux Klan - until no longer politically advantageous) a revered member of the Democratic Party until he died in office in 2010? Rather than spending a billion plus dollars on the Kamala Harris campaign, shouldn’t the Democrats have used that money as a down payment on the reparations to the descendants of former slaves?

Jersey Fled said...

Fun fact of the day:

Trump flipped 54 countries from blue to red in the recent election.

Harris flipped exactly zero. In fact, she may have been the only Presidential candidate in history to not flip a single county.

Note: Numbers might be slightly different now in that it took California took five weeks to count their “ballots” including truckloads that showed up in the middle of the night. My numbers were as of mid November, which were the last ones that Google’s AI could find.

Rusty said...

Thank god that's over.

Narr said...

I tried posting last night but blogger was being an ass.

While I'm happy to pay someone to do my yardwork, my wife is too embarrassed by the mess (and too cheap) to hire cleaners for the house.