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Why are there no Hannukah TV specials? Surely, given their 5000 year history, the Jewish tradition must have some decent stories to share. 

The week of tv reruns and old Christmas specials. The week when my tv goes on only for Chelsea Lately and Letterman. The rest of the time, I’d rather be reading.

In the spirit of the Christmas season, celebrating the birth of a man who proclaimed loving everyone and doing unto them as they would do unto you, the pope has once again declared gay people anathema and their desire to express their love and commitment an abomination. But all you pedophiles out there… the church not only loves you, it will ordain you and hide you from the law. Because pedophilia is apparently a lesser abomination than homosexuality. 

OMG – Alice, we’ve fallen through the looking glass again!

Please do not make your chewy bones out of dark brown material. When I wake up and see the remnants of one tucked carefully under my pillow for safekeeping, it looks like my dog pooped and hid it in my bed. Let’s chose a different color…. one that doesn’t represent poop or diarrhea or any other fun substances that most of us do NOT want to awaken to.

Let’s wait and see how many more children and adults can be killed by crazies with assault rifles. Because god knows, we wouldn’t want to piss off the NRA… neanderthals are ugly when they’re mad.

My Wednesday…

Snow falling and gray sky prevents any thoughts of driving or going out to cross my mind.

Finish the one article that needed to be done by noon.

Go upstairs.

Start a roaring fire.

Grab three weeks worth of newspapers that piled up while I was gone.

Sink into easy chair with dogs lying on me to provide my belly with warmth.

Don’t get up for hours.

There is nothing gracious left about flying, from the knees in your mouth leg space to the intimate relation you inevitably develop with your seat mate who often takes up half your seat. But somehow Alaska Airlines makes it all feel not so terrible. I know that sounds like damning with faint praise but if you knew what I thought about services on most other airlines I’ve flown recently, you’d understand why my heart leapt with joy when it heard I could make it all the way to Philly on Alaska. It beats hell out of the competition.

As I watch Congress try to do its job, and watch the supposed “fiscal cliff” rapidly approach, I can’t help but think of that little old lady who cries that she’s fallen and she can’t get up.  Our US Congress is that old lady. And no amount of pushing a help button is apparently going to save it.

That’s the name of the book I’m currently reading. Or, I should say, trying to read. No, I’m actually reading it, it’s understanding the math and physics that has me flummoxed. I feel like I’m back in high school physics class trying to keep my eyes open while wondering how the teacher could be saying that many words in English that made no sense to me, even though English is my first language.

More to the point, I realize that I recognize most of the names in math and physics from the Big Bang Theory. Who said TV couldn’t be

Happy birthday Grace, you old fart! We met 63 years ago and we’re still going strong. It doesn’t get much better than that… Oh wait. Yes it does. All those years I was jealous because you were a little older than me… well, I am officially no longer jealous that you’re older.