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Holiday Movable Type weirdness

We interrupt this post-holiday blogging slowdown for an important blog housekeeping message. Something weird happened to Respectful Insolence™ over the weekend before Christmas. Sunday, I was composing a little missive to autopost over the holidays. I went to the pulldown menu in Movable Type to assign a category to it and noticed something odd. There […]

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Entertainment/culture Music Television

The joy of Christmas, take 3: David Bowie and Bing Crosby, two great tastes that taste great together

Bowie and Bing. Christmas. What more needs to be said? Consider this making up for the last Christmas video. Simply awesome.

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Entertainment/culture Music Television

The joy of Christmas, take 2: It’s a nice day for a white Christmas…

I think my eyes are bleeding: Maybe this one will be better: Only a little. At least it rocks a bit and is a tad warped in its outlook. That counts for something. In any case, what are you doing here messing around on the Internet and watching silly Christmas videos? Shouldn’t you be with […]

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Humor

The joy of Christmas, take 1: Scared of Santa

It’s Christmas Eve, and nothing says Christmas like Santa Claus. And nothing says Christmas quite as much as the terrified reactions of some little children when they see Santa Claus and realize that they’re Scared of Santa. There are lots more where these two pictures came from here, here, and here. Merry Christmas!

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Anti-Semitism Politics

“Counseling” a racist before letting him in the country?

Even though it’s Christmas Eve and I hadn’t been planning on posting anything except what I hope to be humorous holiday greetings, I couldn’t resist mentioning this example of political correctness run amok: A Croatian rock star accused of anti-Semitism will be forced to undergo tolerance counselling as a condition of entry to Australia. A […]