The children's Christmas concert/play last night. One more Christmas party this weekend. And then the big days hit. On Saturday morning, we're putting our kids into forced labor for two hours, in hopes of getting the house cleaned up for the twelve days of Christmas. They're already dreading it, but we assure them fun follows the working storm.
A UK report says robots may some day have human rights. I worry about a lot of stuff, but I'm going to ignore this. I simply don't think it's possible. Besides, I think Al Gore deserves a few rights.
Contestant 2,398 in the Grinch Awards:
A Santa hat-wearing school bus driver on Long Island, N.Y., has won the right to keep wearing his festive headgear, Newsday reported. Kenneth Mott, who keeps a long, white beard, almost lost his job after a parent called the bus management to complain.
I found this interesting, though I doubt I'll remember it twenty minutes from now: "UPS Inc. was expected to deliver 21 million packages Wednesday, its busiest shipping day of the year as customers rush to send their holiday gifts. Its normal average daily volume is 15 million packages. On Wednesday, it projected it would deliver 240 packages every second."
Rocky Balboa contains an evangelical Christian message of sorts. I searched for information about Stallone's religion, and it doesn't appear he ever had much, though he attended a private Catholic school for two years. In fact, we can probably be grateful that he's not gay:
His father Frank was a hairdresser and mother Jacqueline is a larger-than-life eccentric who's also sought fame as an astrologer and women's wrestling promoter.
I liked the first four Rockies, but I doubt I'll see this one. It's getting decent reviews, but a 60-year-old boxer? That's a bit much. I probably won't see Rambo IV, either, though a 60-year-old counter-terrorist doesn't sound wholly improbable.
A little bit of Christmas information, in case you're struggling for small talk fodder at your next Christmas cocktail party: Only 15% of the Americans surveyed realized that Bethlehem is a Palestinian town on the West Bank, with a mixed Muslim-Christian population. Of course, if that's too much trouble to memorize, you could just skip the party altogether or drink until you're a drooling idiot. Just remember: If you think you're slurring a little, you're slurring a lot. If you think you're slurring a lot, you're not speaking English. (Advice courtesy of the The Modern Drunkard Magazine)
