Underrported Humanitian Stories

Doctors without Borders listed their top 10 underreported humanitarian stories of 2007. (Below is a picture in Somalia, where the civil war there has left many without food, water and medical treatment.)


Read the rest here.

HT to Ariah, who also has a great post about global warming today.

Christmas Confession


I’m a total geek, I must confess.

I was baking Christmas cookies at a friends house and he had a mixed CD of Josh Groban Christmas songs playing. “O Holy Night”, the best traditional Christmas song ever written in my opinion, was on the CD.

And it made me cry. I’m such a geek. I actually like a Josh Groban song. I just can’t blame it on hormones or sugar or anything else in that realm. I just liked it.

Let the heckling commence.

(I will put “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” right up there on my list of best traditional Christmas songs. I am a sucker for Longfellow.)

Christmas Reality

Brilliant.

HT to gman.

Bad Nativites

I think every year for the last few years someone reminds me of this website: Cavalcade of Bad Nativities. It is truly the best of the tacky…which is why I love it.

Here are a few of my favorites:

Yee-Haw!

The Alien Angels

Look out, I gonna jump!

And my ultimate favorite:

Woo-Hoo! Rock on! I think I won something!

Hee.

Pop Culture Quote Monday

If I live to be 100, I’ll never forget that big snow storm a couple of years ago. The weather closed in and, well you might not believe it, but the world almost missed Christmas. Oh, excuse me, call me Sam. What’s the matter? Haven’t you ever seen a talking snowman before?

What movie is it from and who plays Sam the Snowman?