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But I hate it when some people try to rush some of our most cherished holiday traditions.
(They could at least wait until Thanksgiving before assaulting family members and loved ones with seasonal foods.)

U.S. Senate candidate and Boston Celtics honcho Steve Paglicua, who is running for Democratic nomination for the late Ted Kennedy's seat, is getting batted around for what appears to be his own confusion about the military draft. First he was for it, then he was against it. (Is he channeling John Kerry, here? Or, as Jonny Most would have said: "First… Continue

I can't say I'm happy about this, but at least now we are spared what seemed the very real possibility that the World Series celebrations would cut into the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.

Of the many examples of American cultural imperialism (blue jeans, Starbucks, Miley Cyrus) that drive European opinion makers to distraction, few compare to the Americanized celebration of Halloween. Damian Thompson, the blogs editor of the London Daily Telegraph, provides a good example here of their complaints. But, not to worry. Americans, showing… Continue

I'm not going to blog about the balloon boy -- well except to say this: The Heene kids are named Falcon, Ryo and Bradford. Bradford? BRADford? BRADFORD?! What? They ran out of car and truck model names for their kids? The name Willow was already copyrighted? Frodo was too pedestrian? They wanted at least one of the kids not to get beat up at school every… Continue