Twas the day before Christmas and all through the Short List, not a video was playing except for Robert Smigel's great reworking of a holiday classic. On a side note: I'm all for everyone celebrating whatever holiday floats their boat. I happen to celebrate Christmas*, so I'll be back Friday. Happy holidays everyone.
- An internal Obama transition team investigation clears the Obama transition team of all wrongdoing in Blago mess. Why am I suddenly nervous about the next four years?
- Don't worry about the Economic Recovery Plan; Biden's got you covered.
- The President of Toyota may step down. In this country, he'd get a bonus.
- Pope: "Stop the evil gays and save the rain forests!"
- And the most suspicious death of the year is …
- And the most suspicious cutting of transatlantic Internet cables of the year is …
- At least we now know how much Scar Jo's snot is worth: $5,300.
- How do the Yankees have this much money?
*-And sometimes Boxing Day.
This article appears in Dec 24-30, 2008.
