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I don't know where that fingers's been. I ain't touching it.

The floor is sticky, too. And crunchy.

Is this where all the kewl kidz are hanging out this morning?

(What's that smell?)

Some folks have talked about too much short-attention-span web reading leads to difficulty approaching, say, War & Peace or Moby Dick. I've noticed that. I haven't actually sat down and read a significant print book in years. Gift books stack up, in the round tuit stack.

A comfortable chair and a nice reading lamp might help.

Christmas day, daughter handed me a gift, by feel a very hefty book. Not being a reader of late, I tore back the wrapping with some trepidation. The Autobiography of Mark Twain... Volume One! If anything would get my book-reading gears going again, this could do it.

I need to go reading chair shopping now.

Book thread is up.

Our LG fridge has never given us a problem. Must be five years old or more. fyi

Obnoxious A-Hole: "I have been told that the Texas motto is, 'Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes.'"

That was Will Rogers, and he was talking about Oklahoma.

Poor Texans. Had to steal from Oklahoma - how pathetic is that?

I grew up in schools that still taught old-fashioned penmanship. I was terrible at cursive. Wondered, what is it about the girls that they can have such pretty hand?

As a grown-up, and a would-be cartoonist, I managed to improve my writing greatly, but if I get to writing to hastily - thoughts overrunning hand - it reverts to my fourth-grade scrawl.

Vic is right (of course) about keeping your hand in. Handwriting's a different frame of mind than typing, too. I spent several years writing each morning in a journal. Why ever did I quit? Oh, yeah.. I got the habit of reading some blog's morning threads....

So the YouTube fishing is just me? Weird. Still dont trust it.

Twenty! It's twenty degrees F it says here! No wonder the furnace keeps cooking.

We just had several near-60° days. I don't mind the cold - I survived fourteen winters in Chicago - as much as I mind the wild variation. Unfortunately, "wild weather variations" is the Oklahoma state motto.

Trying to load the main page here or at WZ, I get a full screen pop up fishing for my YouTube password. Just me or is anyone else seeing this?

J.J. Sefton: "Vic brings the hard-hitting news. I just kvetch, kibitz and kaffee-klatch."

and kountdown.

News and entertainment features! Yay morning threads!

Morning, Glories! Cold and dark in my corner of the world. feels like December, oddly enough.

Moviegoers get to their feet and sing God Bless America before seeing The Interview in Atlanta
Daily Mail c/o Weasel Zippers

I am unfamiliar with the film's creators' oeuvre, but from those who have seen it have said, it's okay, for vulgar lowbrow comedy. I am seeing articles on the one hand about how it was some insider at Sony who did this hacking, not NoKorea. On the other hand, I read serious articles about how powerful and sophisticated are NK's cyber soldiers - part of their military.

But, who cares, moviegoers get to their feet and sing God Bless America!

Sold out crowds turned out around the country… And for some theatergoers seeing the film became a very patriotic moment, like the crowd at The Plaza Theater in Atlanta, Georgia who got to their feet to sing God Bless America before the picture started.

The 1942 rendition of the classic song as performed by Kate Smith will be played before each screening at that theater.

"…Eric Metaxas, writing in the Wall Street Journal, of all places… talks about whether recent discoveries have made the world look more created/designed, or more eternal/undesigned."

I don't join/subscribe to WSJ, so I just read the excerpts by WinteryKnight.

"… The odds against life in the universe are simply astonishing… [and that's] nothing compared with the fine-tuning required for the universe to exist at all."

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Speaking of design…

Mind if I add a few news bits and bytes?

Happy Third Day of Christmas. How would you like your French hens?

Here's an archeology report replete with how the Herods tie into Jesus' life story: Israeli archeologists have uncovered an impressive entrance to Herod's palace at Herodium (Baptist Press) c/o WinteryKnight.com

Merry Christmas, oh Bluebird of Bitterness. Third day of.

Before I even watch the video, I wanted to say:

I truly appreciate your website, and special thanks for the gifts of your caturday and music videos. Lightening the world's heaviness with humor and beauty.

May 2015 be a great year for you.

Good to see you, Vic!

Too many words for my half-asleep brain, so, didn't read thoroughly. Will try again after the other eye is open.

But my 2¢ anyway: a word I don't see in the article is "racial." One can argue that racial traits and tendencies exist, and acknowledge differences, without being exactly racist in the bigoted sense.

Now, a story.

In college, in Wisconsin, I, fresh from Oklahoma, was talking to a guy from Detroit. Somehow the N word came up. I have never on my life called anyone a Ni@@er, but I have stories that employ the word. Like, the reason a nearby road used to be called Ni@@er's Gap. (Because blacks fled through that passage fleeing the 1920 Tulsa race riot.)

My Detroit friend heard me utter the forbidden word. He demanded, say that again. I stupidly said, what? He said, say Ni@@er. I did. Repeat several times. He concludes, "Sure sounds hateful when you say it!" Bob later told me he had me pegged for a racist Southern bigot. Ear of the beholder. I obviously have no fear of language (and mask the word here only for Ace's sake.)

Bob told me the house he lived in was the only one on the block not damaged in the Detroit riots, because Bob's family, black, were upstairs, and a white family lived downstairs. That was his native culture.

That was considerably different from my upbringing! Our town was racially divided and unequal, and the only blacks I knew as a kid were folks who worked at white people's homes. However, they were some of the finest, most decent Christian folks of my experience. Culture can be tricky like that.

Oops - sorry for putting out too many words myself.

I see a new fundamental WeirdDave post yet this one still sends alive. So confusing!

I'll just say this here, anyway...

Morning, Glories!

Soona? Just a light dusting of snow up here north of Tulsa, everything looks frosted. Fine midst of snow still falling. Looks nice for a third day of Christmas.

I am deeply offended at this whole movement of being deeply offended. I demand reparations for this violation of my Constitutional right to never feel insulted.

Happy Three French Hens day.