Your ugly Christmas sweater is getting trumped
by my ugly Christmas sweater suit.
What I want to know is why there’s a “Little Drummer Boy Challenge” when a “Christmas Shoes Challenge” makes more sense.
"The Allure of Middle Earth" is good reading on the week Peter Jackson takes us on his last trip there.
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“If your house was burning, what would you take with you?” This is the question Foster Huntington asks in his Tumblr (turned book) The Burning House. More than 5000 people from around the world have answered his question in photo form, neatly lining up their most treasured possessions into aesthetically pleasing arrangements. (story)
Can you guess the meaning of these 11 idioms from around the world? After getting 8 of 11, I’m like a maggot in bacon.
“The great spasms of cruelty and killing through history have had little or no religious overlay. In modern times Hitler, Stalin and Mao were all atheists, and the power behind the Holocaust…was an ethnic rather than a religious hatred. An overemphasis on religion’s damage can blind people to the nonholy terrors that their states inflict.” In the NYT Sunday Book Review, James Fallows recaps Karen Armstrong’s point in her new book, Fields of Blood.
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