Mike’s Blog Round-Up And A Message From Crooks And Liars

From our homes to yours, a very happy Christmas Day. Our staff is taking a well-deserved day off and our schedule today is devoted to Crookie Awards and a Football Open Thread coming up later this morning. -- eds.

Above, from the Christmas Classics file, "Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis" by Mr. Tom Waits.

The Janovsky Report: A story of basketball, madness, genius and brotherly love.

The Rude Pundit: The Rude Pundit's Annual Nativity-palooza, Now with Bonus Folk Horror.

Mock Paper Scissors: ‘Never Back Down’ Is Backing Down.

Attention space nerds! On Dec. 24, 1968, Apollo 8 astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to orbit the Moon, and the first to witness the magnificent sight called "Earthrise."

Round Up by driftglass of the Professional Left Podcast and Science Fiction University

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