The Evening Blues - 12-25-17
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 12/25/2017 - 5:05pm
Christmas
Christmas Lies My Mother Told Me
Submitted by Anja Geitz on Mon, 12/25/2017 - 3:58pm
Monday Open Thread; December 25 is Christmas
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 12/25/2017 - 5:00am
December 25 is the 359th day of the year, there are 6 days left
Today's number is 25
25 is 5 squared, and it has no other divisors
The elites were sitting around a table, and...
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 12/25/2017 - 12:29amone of them came up with this ingenious plan.
"We'll appropriate this holiday, you see, and while no capitalism (well, almost no capitalism) can take place on the day of the holiday itself, we'll have lots of capitalism for the rest of the month by coercing people to buy presents for each other! It'll boost sales like crazy, and make up for the one day we're not selling anything!"
June 26, 2017 Open Thread; International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 06/26/2017 - 5:00amJune 26 is the 177th day of the year. There are 188 days left.
Today's number is 26
Open Thread - The Christmas Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 12/25/2016 - 5:06am
Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Cool Kwanzaa, and Festive Festivus (for the rest of us),
or just have a good day if you are a devout non-celebrant.
Welcome to the Christmas day edition of the Weekly Watch!
Christmastide
by H. P. Lovecraft
by H. P. Lovecraft
The cottage hearth beams warm and bright,
The candles gaily glow;
The stars emit a kinder light
Above the drifted snow.
Down from the sky a magic steals
To glad the passing year,
And belfries sing with joyous peals,
For Christmastide is here!
Open Thread - Saturday, December 24
Submitted by Goin South on Sat, 12/24/2016 - 5:35amGlory be to God on high
And in earth peace, goodwill towards men.
(Gloria in excelsis Deo, Book of Common Prayer of 1662, based on Luke 2:14)
The Evening Blues - 12-23-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Fri, 12/23/2016 - 11:04am
What I Want for Christmas (Or: Shouting at Two Walls)
Submitted by The Aspie Corner on Wed, 12/21/2016 - 11:29pmYou know what I'd like for Christmas? For the Hillbots to shut the fuck up about imaginary Russians hacking our elections and to own up to the fact that their candidate lost in spite of all the shenanigans and repeated warnings they chose to ignore. But don't worry, I'm not leaving the Alt-Right Drumpfkopfs out of this one. Not by a long shot.
Happy Christmas Bird Count w/Photos
Submitted by Yellerdog on Sun, 12/18/2016 - 5:52pmIt’s Christmas bird count day. In the 19th and much of the 20th Century Christmas was celebrated by the mass slaughter of birds to some extent for food but mostly for sport. Groups would often form teams or shoot individually sometimes for a prize slaughtering birds by the thousands and most often just letting them lie where they fell. What fun.
