The first recorded use of MERRY CHRISTMAS goes back to 1534 in a letter dated December 22 by imprisoned English Bishop John Fisher to lawyer and activist Thomas Cromwell. In his letter, Fisher—who had been in the Tower of London prison for eight months for refusing to recognize

THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1962)🎄 Professor Ellis Fowler is an elderly English literature teacher at a boys' prep school in Vermont, who is forced into retirement after teaching for more than 50 years at the school. Looking through his old yearbooks and reminiscing about his former

DEMANDED THE DUCHESS What do you want? Boys like you don’t flatter an old woman for nothing. (Dorothy Sayers' Duchess of Medway reformatted into haiku.)

A Christmas Carol on Tubi: "Michael Arden directs Broadway's Jefferson Mays, who embodies 50 roles in a haunting, timeless tale spanning past, present, and future." tubitv.com/movies/1000457…

A Merry and Blessed Christmas from our family to yours! May our Lord surround you with His love on this great day of celebration!

Dr. Naomi Wolf. 8 NYT Bestsellers. DPhil, Poetry. "Establishment of religion" had a specific legal meaning, concerning governmental funds earmarked for a specific church body, its ministers, and its property. The national government was not to establish a church, OR to interfere with such state establishments as already existed.

'[W]hen children are still quite tiny..., we cannot imagine that we can go without them, for even a couple of days, and later we do, and it’s a couple of weeks, and later it’s months, gray years, black decades, and then the opéra bouffe of the Christians’ eternity." --Vladimir

For what it's worth, I've always considered myself very libertarian--very live and let live. And, throughout my professional career, I've been very pro-immigration and pro-open borders, even when this has threatened my family (yes, I got a huge number of death threats a decade

Would have been a great show if anything ever happened or the protagonist wasn't completely insufferable

When the NFL reaches the stage that the majority of its players wear guardian caps, every game will look like an episode of 'The Outer Limits.'

If you can attend one of these games, do so. You're children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren--even your not-so-great grandchildren (not to mention your "inner" children)--will thank you. harlemglobetrotters.com/world-tour/sch… Harlem Globetrotters

What a beautiful person. I’m so humbled after watching this.

Pawel “Dazzle” Kidon at the Rocket Arena, 12-28-26, Harlem Globetrotters.

"Under her heavy, ill-cut fringe her dark eyes gloomed sombrely at him." (Dorothy Sayers reformatted into haiku)

I’m not singing the woke gender-neutral version of the third verse of “Hark, the Herald Angels Sing,” which happens to be the hardest-hitting verse of any Christmas carol out there I’ll leave that nonsense to the Lutherans

Richard Bratby The whole business of thinking that somebody ELSE wrote S's plays didn't get underway until the late 1800's, when it was suddenly all the rage to question the authorship of everything. NO ONE of the 3 most common alternatives ever wrote anything remotely resembling what S did.

Auld Lang Syne (live) 2025 - Ron Andrico & Donna Stewart, Mignarda youtu.be/qpkc1lmAN5o?si… via YouTube

Auld Lang Syne (live) 2025 - Ron Andrico & Donna Stewart, Mignarda youtu.be/qpkc1lmAN5o?si… via YouTube

Nat King Cole "Happy New Year" Take #6 Unreleased Track youtu.be/mx8SEHE1hMk?si… via YouTube

"[P]eople resist as long as they can a full sense of the world’s change and of their own aging. At last, when a certain number of irreplaceable people are gone, and the home place has been razed, and one is the only rememberer of certain things, the gut acknowledges what the mind