Morning Reads for Christmas Day, 2018
Good morning, and Merry Christmas! Alternately, Happy Tuesday! I hope however you celebrate, whether it’s with family, at the movies, sidled up to your favorite bar, or enjoying a little peace and quiet, you have a wonderful day. This is a difficult time of year for many people, and if you are one of them, please know that you are loved, and I am glad you are here.
(Confidential to anyone who had to stuff their own stocking: you are doing a great job, Mama.)
- The story behind the
Macy’sRich’s Pink Pig. - Louis Armstrong reads The Night Before Christmas.
- The Pink Pig : Atlanta :: Mr. Bingle : New Orleans. Here is his story.
- GPB’s Bill Niguit reads Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory.
- Finally, David Sedaris explains why America > The Netherlands through the story of Saint Nicholas, former Bishop of Turkey, and his “friends.”
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Teri
Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.
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Only kids could get into the early version of the Pink Pig that originally circumvented Rich’s toy department. Just like the scene in A Christmas Story mom and dad could ditch the kids in the toy department safely and their was even a Santa’s workshop where the minders could help the kids select a gift for the parents and get them wrapped. Unless my memory or the trips were intermittent I think the pig was only on the rooftop one year when they also had real reindeer on the roof. This was a marketing nightmare compared to the previous arrangement. The cold weather was a problem but also the time of year coincided with the reindeer’s rutting season…
It’s the 6th day… I survived an interesting Christmas eve with mom’s side of the family – where I am classified as the soulless big city progressive follower of east coast liberal values (bet a few of you didn’t know you lived in a hub of east coast liberal values). Had an interesting Christmas day with dad’s side of the family – where I am classified as the globalist anti unionist conservative hack who is being turned in to a never trumpster republican with red state values.
And people wonder why I drink…
Ellynn, so to hear that. Sounds like you get it from both ends. Seems to me that if you let those facts be known, they might be more supportive.
I am glad my family on both sides don’t take politics to the level of ruining family holidays or friendships— but I know there are plenty that do.
It’s too bad that any folks would take politics so seriously that it jeopardizes friendships. I have found that that many liberals, but certainly not all, take politics so seriously that it almost takes the place of religion. The intolerance is overwhelming.
Trump supporters are considered borderline murderers…In my experience most conservatives view liberals as misguided and arrogant but rarely waste enough emotion with them to ruin a friendship over.
I think Jefferson and the founders had it right. Limit the power seeking bastards on both sides and enjoy your life. Don’t let them have the power to tax you to death, regulate you to death or control your life.
I hope the new year is kind to us all and there can be some degree of sanity, balance and honesty within our political system. The Kavanaugh hearings are a prime example why that may be wishful thinking.
First off, you really need to get a better understanding of sarcasm.
We don’t let politics get in the way of family. I don’t take any of their ribbing seriously (except my siblings) and it’s not personal. At times we all get a really good laugh out of it all.
What I find interesting is the youngest of the voting age family are the most unbending, no grey allowed on both sides of a subject. If you read my comment on Charlie’s weekly post, one of the young one showed up in a flag/kneeing T-shirt. It was meant to tick off his uncle. He was bummed when his uncle didn’t even make a comment on it. Even my bro had a great time on Christmas-day with out younger cousin who is a huge supporter of Black Live’s Matter.
And as always – what I find amazing is how I can be labeled a liberal and a conservative based on the point I don’t follow 100% along someone’s political belief.
I’m also on hour 4 of Fox tonight. Whoever is filling in for Tucker is a bit dull. To annoy my brother I have my phone streaming Chris Hayes’ show with my headphones in but the volume off. I have the phone set up where he can see it. He keeps looking over to see it.
The function between age and mental flexibility is an odd one. Probably parabolic, with inflexibility highest in the youngest and oldest years. You could even be inflexibly liberal when 20, then inflexibly conservative when 80.
Personally, I never lived outside the grey area.
Reality is 98% grey to some degree or other, regardless of how ppl feel. And the remaining 2% is overcrowded.
I think it is how the under 25 crowd gather and process information. It’s 30 second sound bites with limited facts and interactions with opinions in 6 word mime’. They don’t need to cooperate or talk about ideas beyond their zone of friends with similar points of view. They only see the importance of what ‘they’ think is important. Example, the sibling of t-shirt boy can recite the entire second amendment to me at 20 but has no idea what the 4th or the 10th is. To him, they don’t effect his day to day life of working as a welder, have a cool car, hunting and target shooting. And he doesn’t want to know anything beyond what his twitter and snapchat friends agree with him over. I don’t hunt, I don’t own a gun, I drive a sedan, and I sit at a desk instead of doing hard labor for a job. I’m not like him, thus to her point of view I’m a liberal. It’s very odd.
Merry Christmas Pelosi. “Every place a wall or barrier has been built, it has resulted in decreased illegal immigration, decreased drug smuggling. One hundred percent of the time, it has proven effective,” Mr. Homan said
Out sourcing is GM’s problem not tarrifs.