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• The New York Post quoted a survey saying parents will spend about $200 on Christmas toys per child. Kids' imaginations are so coddled today with gentle toys like Elf on the Shelf and Toy Story. Back in the 1980's, if a doll magically came to life it was Chucky and he killed both you and your family.
• The National Retail Federation reported statistics showing forty percent of Americans do all their holiday shopping online. The reliability of your package delivery options varies. The U.S. Postal Service announced that today is the deadline to ship packages if you want them to be lost by Christmas.
• PGA star Jon Rahm of Spain signed a huge money deal to leave the PGA Tour for the Saudi LIV tour. Tour merger talks have begun. The argument over the ethics of the LIV Tour raiding the PGA Tour has millions of golfers taking sides and caused a serious split in the Methodist Church.
• US News and World Report published an article listing the new cars with the most high-tech features for the money in the 2023 and 2024 model cars. The dashboard on my Cadillac has a button for pretty much everything, including one that says Rear Wiper. I'm still too afraid to try that one.
• The White House posted a photo of its official Christmas greeting from President Biden and his wife Jill last week. The official photograph shows the president and first lady standing next to the White House Christmas tree. The dim bulbs make for a nice backdrop, and the tree lights look nice too.
• Donald Trump was accused by Democrats of quoting Adolf Hitler by telling a New Hampshire crowd that illegal aliens are poisoning the population. Sometimes Democrats just have to hand it to Trump. It appears that he's figured out the only way he'll ever get an honorary degree from Harvard.
• The Pentagon plans to remove a 1914 Confederate monument at Arlington National Cemetery that represents national reconciliation. It's insulting. It will cost the Pentagon $3 million to remove the statue, $10 million if it involves a screwdriver and $100 million if it involves a hammer or a crowbar.
• Climate Czar John Kerry hosted a press conference after the UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai where he declared we must wean ourselves off all fossil fuels and coal-powered energy. We have to do all we can to save our planet. I've just unplugged a row of electric cars that no one was using.
• Fox Business News cited NRF's most recent data saying eighteen percent of all merchandise sold during the holiday season will be returned from dissatisfied gift recipients. I just phoned the customer helpline at Hewlett Packard. Two weeks ago I ordered a Laser Jet and they sent me a printer.
• Pepsi Co's website reported Friday that Pepsi's chemists working in their upstate New York laboratories have invented a liquor that tastes like nacho cheese flavored Doritos. Happy holidays indeed. It's a message to the world from America that says we'll get to a cure for Covid when we get to it.
• The Public Policy Institute of California conducted a statewide survey ahead of 2024 which found forty-seven percent of Californians are Democrats and twenty-four percent are Republicans. Here in California we get a sticker for voting. Not to be outdone, bananas get a sticker for being bananas.
• Boston Mayor Michelle Wu hosted a holiday party Saturday night that excluded white people from attending. Well, there was the public reaction and then there was the actual reaction. White Bostonians feigned outrage, jumped at the chance, and reinstated their old by-laws at the country club.
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