At least on this site.  Even though catching Fox News
with a dozen different uses of the word "holiday" on their site — and
no mention of Christmas — has been fun and popular, I’m done with the
subject.  Wasting any more breath on the point is allowing the lunatics
to set the agenda.

That said, I’ve learned the following in the last week:

There’s yet another use of the word "holiday" on the page — in fine
print, in the graphic to the left of "Deck The Halls," underneath the
words "Real Simple."  This raises the score to Holidays 12, Christmas 0.

At various times since, as the original Fox News page has been updated,
the word "holiday" has appeared as often as 14 times, with nary a
mention of the word "Christmas."  The source code has contained the
word up to 17 times.

Finally, I have heard from several overseas visitors that the Armed
Forces Network, that noted liberal conspiracy, is using the phrase
"Happy Holidays."  Because obviously, the U.S. Army, Air Force, Navy,
and Marines all hate Christmas.

This is just too stupid to continue bothering with.

In new, improved, animated form!

Go watch.  Courtesy Scott Bateman.

Remember the moment in "A Few Good Men" when Jack Nicholson, too full
of himself to realize what he was saying, finally blurts out "I ordered
the Code Red!" and is immediately placed under arrest?

That’s what Chimpy just did.

George W. Bush just confessed to breaking the law, over and over, for the last several years. 

Now let’s just see if we live in a democracy or something a lot
scarier.  Scoreboard so far: secret surveillance, secret evidence,
imprisonment without trial, torture… so far, "scarier" is winning.

The good folks at Wampum are fielding your suggestions for the 2005 Koufax awards.  (This post
lists the categories.)  They field comments from visitors, put together
a list of official nominations, and there’s a vote.  After which, giant
naked blog party!  Whoo-hoo!

Actually, not so much.  Like any awards, these mean absolutely nothing,
other than a chance for a lot of bloggers and blog readers to find other blogs they like.  So use it that way.  Poke around the comments (and later, nominees) and see what else you might enjoy.

If you feel like mentioning the rants here at puduland while you’re
there, so people who haven’t been here might drop in, that would be
neat.  But really, that’s all this is for.  Last year, this site was
officially nominated for six Koufaxes.  I think these were Most
Amusing, Best Writing, and I dunno, Biggest Pudus or whatever.  This
was nice.  Everybody likes compliments, and I’d be lying to you if I
didn’t admit to some joy at seeing that someone has already suggested
our Poll Of The Day for Best Series this year.  But what I got out of last year was discovering The General and Juan Cole and Suburban Guerilla and a bunch of others among the other nominees.  Much reading pleasure since.

So like I said — awards aside, this is really just a great chance to
find other good stuff.  There must be 40 or 50 blogs I want to add to
the blogroll when I get the spare time.  Firedoglake is terrific, and I almost never visit, just out of bad habit.  Shakespeare’s Sister.  Michael Berube.  Dozens and dozens of others.

So go look through the suggestions. 
Click around.  You’ll love it.  And when you’re done, if you’d like to
mention this site, great.  But we’ve all already won, just from Wampum putting this together.

The good folks at Wampum are fielding your suggestions for the 2005 Koufax awards.  (This post
lists the categories.)  They field comments from visitors, put together
a list of official nominations, and there’s a vote.  After which, giant
naked blog party!  Whoo-hoo!

Actually, not so much.  Like any awards, these mean absolutely nothing,
other than a chance for a lot of bloggers and blog readers to find other blogs they like.  So use it that way.  Poke around the comments (and later, nominees) and see what else you might enjoy.

If you feel like mentioning the rants here at puduland while you’re
there, so people who haven’t been here might drop in, that would be
neat.  But really, that’s all this is for.  Last year, this site was
officially nominated for six Koufaxes.  I think these were Most
Amusing, Best Writing, and I dunno, Biggest Pudus or whatever.  This
was nice.  Everybody likes compliments, and I’d be lying to you if I
didn’t admit to some joy at seeing that someone has already suggested
our Poll Of The Day for Best Series this year.  But what I got out of last year was discovering The General and Juan Cole and Suburban Guerilla and a bunch of others among the other nominees.  Much reading pleasure since.

So like I said — awards aside, this is really just a great chance to
find other good stuff.  There must be 40 or 50 blogs I want to add to
the blogroll when I get the spare time.  Firedoglake is terrific, and I almost never visit, just out of bad habit.  Shakespeare’s Sister.  Michael Berube.  Dozens and dozens of others.

So go look through the suggestions. 
Click around.  You’ll love it.  And when you’re done, if you’d like to
mention this site, great.  But we’ve all already won, just from Wampum putting this together.