The Anti-Panti?http://www.target.com/gp/detail.html/ref=br_1_2/602-7778051-7665407?%5Fencoding=UTF8&frombrowse=1&asin=B000296EB8
I don’t even want to know anymore

Post Christmas MartyEmail goodness:
The worst gadgets of the year:http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=9004645
‘”In searching for a replacement for the floppy disc, industrious tech geeks in Japan raced to satisfy two cravings at once. They came up with the Sushi disc. “Never again will you have to choose between having sushi or having a USB memory drive,” according to a [...]

Good News:http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/ns/news/story.jsp?id=2004122714050002798527&dt=20041227140500&w=RTR&coview=
“NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Depressed men and women who consider themselves affiliated with a religion are less likely to attempt suicide than their non-religious counterparts, according to new study findings. “If someone acknowledges being religious, all else being equal, they are at lower risk to act on suicidal thoughts than someone who does [...]

Once again, Merry Christmas.
Here’s a story out of Colorado Springs, where an Evangelical Christian group put copies of the New Testament in the Sunday paper there: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2616202,00.html
‘”Rabbi Anat Moskowitz canceled her subscription to the Gazette because she didn’t approve of the way the text was delivered.“All Jews treat holy books with reverence and respect,” Moskowitz [...]

Blah Blah Blah, I swore I wouldn’t be blogging but…
Good column by G.F. Will:http://www.sacbee.com/content/opinion/national/will/story/11832163p-12720039c.html

I promised myself I wouldn’t blog excessively over break, but I wanted to get this article into the archive:
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/articles/15524646?source=Evening%20Standard&ct=5
“A white Christmas is looking increasingly likely – but forecasters are warning that gale-force winds, torrential rain and ice could bring chaos to the great festive getaway. “
‘”There could be the most widespread snow seen on 25 [...]

Merry Christmas everyone!

Another radio show, another paper, a few columns and tests. My life seems to have evolved only slightly in the last five years. But, in any case, it’s Christmas.
Merry Christmas.
That said, if you happened to listen to my show today, leave a few comments in the comments section. I’ve love feedback, I [...]

Here is an interesting article that shows that the 90’s weren’t all that bad as far as climate goes:
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v432/n7015/full/432289a_fs.html&content_filetype=pdf
or non pdf:
http://www.nature.com/cgi-taf/DynaPage.taf?file=/nature/journal/v432/n7015/full/432289a_fs.html
“Historical phenology: Grape ripening as a past climate indicatorSummer temperature variations are reconstructed from harvest dates since 1370.French records of grape-harvest dates in Burgundy were used to reconstruct spring–summer temperatures from 1370 to 2003 using [...]

I don’t know if I’ll make a habit of this, but I’ll publish this month’s MartyEmail in the Blog:
Christmas Time for MartyEmail!
As tradition tells us, in the beginning there were crappy gifts, and in the end there will be crappy gifts, but in the middle there will always be stuff people will talk about. [...]

Wow, I got a lot of play in the Finals edition of the Minnesota Daily. The Finals issue of the Daily is a work of satire, and I wrote a number of satire pieces, a number of which made the Daily. I also got mentioned in a few articles, so here is the [...]

Stuff I don’t really care about:http://www.lostenterprises.com/prod/newsArtical.php?ID=505
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/10403120.htm
“Democratic city councilman has demanded that a baker remove photos of President Bush from his stand in Lancaster’s venerable farmers’ market, saying the city needs a “healing period” following the bitterly contested presidential election.City Council member Nelson Polite approached David Stoltzfus last month and asked him to remove the pictures. [...]