Babe In Bethlehem

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Merry Christmas! (Photo: Christmas Day 12:47PM, view from my living room window across to Willmore Park, St. Louis)




May the grace and peace of the Infant Jesus be yours.

Lest We Forget

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Sixty-eighty years ago today, out of a bright blue Sunday morning sky, Japan sneak-attacked Pearl Harbor. Lest we forget.

Postal Service Makes Santa Letters Go Belly Up

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How many more adults will spoil things for children (and for other adults)?: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hCHNHQco9s98ruRro8qyPD2vwB_AD9C2K4TG3

Bye-Bye Daylight Savings Time, Kimosavee

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Republic of Lakotah site relates:

"When told the reason for daylight savings time the Old Indian said: 'Only the Government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket and sew it to the bottom and have a longer blanket.' ”

Liu Bolin, The Invisible Man

Artist Liu Bolin paints himself into his environment: http://v1kram.posterous.com/liu-bolinthe-invisible-man

More here: http://www.thisisdiversity.com/articles/all/2282/chinese-artist-paints-himself-invisible/

　

　

Zoom! Zoom! Zoom!

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Atomic goodie for you. How big is small? How small is big? As I sat here in my cell, this I found illuminating (work the slider): http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/begin/cells/scale/

Who Wears Short Shorts? - Or - Decadence Alert!

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Two things Belgium invented: "French" fries and...the Famous Underwear Museum.

Honestly.

Why not go to Saks or Bonwit, or what have you, and see the damn skivvies for free before the famous buy them?

Let's look on the bright side: the museum's debut may vex the crowd that denounce the Shroud of Turin as a fetish.