- Jack Jodell at The Saturday Afternoon Post presents his annual bad list, this time named Santa’s Donald of the Year.
- At Vagabond Scholar, Batacchio presents his annual Jon Swift Roundup list of best blog posts from all over the net, as chosen by bloggers. By some oversight, FairAndUNbalanced was missed, but nobody is perfect. It’s a great gathering of great thought expressed in great writing.
- North Carolina pastor John Pavlovitz writes with powerful empathy about enduring the Christmas absence of a lost loved one. He suggests one ray in the terrible darkness.
- Max’s Dad expresses his own wonderfully caustic holiday cheer and acerbic best wishes for the coming year.
- The Propaganda Professor brings combat news from the holiday front as the War on Christmas is briefly interrupted by a ruthless attack on Thanksgiving.
- tengrain at Mock Paper Scissors finds a safe sanctuary in the midst of the annual fundamentalist War to Enforce Holidays.
- Scotties Toy Box includes in his collection of cartoons and memes a brief, accurate, tick-tock of the Ukraine-related impeachable offense.
- Lots of impeachment talk about who is playing chess and who is playing checkers. Frances Langum looks over strategy and decides my president is not playing chess, and is not playing checkers.
- It took some doing. Our favorite Earth-Bound Misfit reports as a Democratic governor manages to give Donald Trump competition for this year’s low in pettiness. Has to do with weddings.
- Green Eagle finds multiple stories repeated on multiple right-wing sites about multiple indictments of multiple leftward lawbreakers who funneled multiple foreign contributions to multiple top Democrats. Problem is the multiplied story does not exist outside the rightwing bubble. Green Eagle traces the fiction to one creative site. Such is the current state of contemporary conservatism.
- Biden somewhat gently forced Trump ex-presser Sarah Huckabee Sanders to apologize after she ridiculed his childhood struggle against stuttering. Tommy Christopher has the video of an earlier, little known encounter as Biden counsels a youngster facing the same struggle.
- John Scalzi at Whatever watches and really likes The Rise of Skywalker promising no spoilers in his review.