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yeah, that article did the same thing for me - I'm a little bit bummed that i can no longer hate on those dogs.

I did the caroling thing a couple of years, including riding from house to house in a horse-drawn hay-filled wagon, which was actually a lot of fun.

we did the big family get-together at thanksgiving, so Christmas was nice and peaceful. and my idea of Christmas presents for the favorite nieces and nephews is to enclose money in card with a little note. I used to be a lot more bah humbug than that, but the kids really are adorable, and they're still young enough to think that their doting auntie is cool.

this is still one of my favorite bah humbug stunts.

I don't think I'm up to that one right now, but I've put it on my list.

I found this one eye-opening and reassuring - in that I feel like I know better how to understand and control the conditions and circumstances of my own eventual demise.

Bite, this is called "How to lie with statistics" .. you can always find a metric that will support any argument. She lost. She should have won. It's on her.

[](https://www.amazon.ca/How-Lie-Statistics-Darrell-Huff/dp/0393310728) -- great book, timeless, simple but excellent.

Meh. Most people just worry too much. In an individual case the costs are impossible to assess ahead of time. Keep chilling. You're rational -- obviously gonna be great at this.
But if you become interested in backup this one, this one, and this one are all people i respect. (Early childhood specialists seem to all play tennis, oddly. Also, all of them SUPER laid back about children IRL -- they have points of view, but not Nazis.)

British birders seem to be a bit more obsessive than Americans. A couple of years ago I read The Jewel Hunter, the story of an birder so obsessed by a variety of birds called pittas that he quit a really good job so that he could spend a year trying to see all forty-some-odd species in the wild. The book was hilarious, and a really good adventure story, and there was a lot of talk about birds, which I really appreciated. I enjoyed the book so much I actually sent an e-mail to the author telling him how much I liked it, and he answered me with a long e-mail pretty much written in the goofy style of the book. Turns out he'd gone back to England and got his old job back, but he was thinking about quitting again to try to see all the antpittas in the world.

Makes me think twice about sitting here grading really bad term papers.

Well, as long as we're on the cheerful subject, this book is extraordinary.

Stephen Potter, I'm pretty sure.

My mother gave me this for my 10th birthday.

On my reading list. Do you think this is getting more publicity? I mostly get the sense that the media is a mouthpiece for the official story line. Don't disagree with you, TK, bite, except that I don't think overstating the facts serves any good. An alternative (to me) take here.

I have Amazon Prime. Would this work?

I'm about 60 pages in and it occurred to me that you would like this book. If you haven't already read it, I suggest you stop what you're doing and order it as soon as &c &c &c.