Category Archives: Uncategorized

Happy New Year!

     Have a Happy, and safe, New Year!      Enjoy a tasty beverage (or ten)!

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | 1 Comment

     Just doing a little end-of-year cleaning out the Blogroll by removing defunct blogs. Four blogs that were listed in the sidebar is now pining for the fjords, and no longer exist. If it is your blog or if it has … Continue reading

Posted on by The Political Hat | 1 Comment

Boxing Day Open Thread

     Now this is a holiday!

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

12 Posts of Christmas, 2025 (Day 12)

     ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas… and there will be cookies.      Merry Christmas!

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

12 Posts of Christmas, 2025 (Day 11)

     A little Christmas message for our enemies around the world.

Posted in Uncategorized, War & Terror | Tagged , | Leave a comment

12 Posts of Christmas, 2025 (Day 10)

     This Christmas Season, let us not forget the poor amongst us.  Townsends harkens back to the turn of the 19th Century and what for many of the poor, as humble as it may have been, was a feast.      Merry Christmas!

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

12 Posts of Christmas, 2025 (Day 9)

     Everybody loves Christmas music, especially when sung by Alice Cooper.      Marry Christmas, and may you be welcome to a pleasant dream instead of a nightmare!

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment

12 Posts of Christmas, 2025 (Day 8)

     Make your Christmas more festive by understanding the festive origins of festive words!      Have an Etymological Christmas!

Posted in Education, Uncategorized | Tagged | 1 Comment

12 Posts of Christmas, 2025 (Day 7)

     Santa has a counterpart who visits the naughty children named Krampus, who is sometimes depicted as female… which may not be so bad.      Merry Christmas, and try not to be too naughty.

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged | Leave a comment

12 Posts of Christmas, 2025 (Day 6)

     It ain’t really Christmas until the Victoria Christmas Pudding it set on fire.      Merry Christmas, and have a fire extinguisher ready just in case!

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged , | Leave a comment