BLOG WHIPPING
James Lileks is especially good today, talking about the latest fad - complaining that the Christmas is being taken out of the "Holiday Season." He notes that in the "Season," Hannukah and Kwanzaa remain. But Christmas is gone, well, from some places. James Walcott, the self-important liberal columnist (but that's redundant) took issue with Lileks' complaints because he heard some folks say "Merry Christmas" in his upper west side neighborhood, and we are all supposed to know what that is - and what it means - because NYC is the center of the universe, and if you live there, the whole universe, the rest of the country be damned in all of its redness. Upper West Side, Upper East Side, who cares, its all an overcrowded hell hole that needs its good restaurants to take people's minds off of their bad decision to live where you can't find real dirt because the whole damn city is paved. But they have government to provide them dirt. They call it Central Park. If you have to get your dirt, leaves and nature from government, I guess it stands to reason to believe that Idahoans need government to tell them what to do with their "land," so they don't run out of real dirt like they did in The City. (I just imagine liberal city-dwellers thinking of "land" as something requiring quotation marks).

Anyway, Lileks administers a righteous bloggacious beating to Walcott. The kind of beating you can only get because of this new technology. It just wouldn't have worked in next month's issue of Vanity Fair or whatever.

And after you've read Lileks, check out Cox & Forkum. Sure, it sounds like some clichéd Jeremy-Diggler "acting technique," but its worksafe and their cartoons are fantastic. Probably the best cartoonists working today. Of course, they aren't syndicated, because the only way conservative cartoonists get jobs at newspapers is by slipping through the cracks. (Hey, Mr. Bradlee, turns out that cartoonist we hired is, well, different.) Anyway, Cox & Forkum imagine Michael Moore going after Santa. Funny stuff. Scroll down and see their dead on take on the "United Nations" (something conservatives should put in quotation marks).

And for more time wasting, do some browsing of the photofraud training grounds over at at Worth1000. I bet these guys could have Dan Rather reporting on martians landing at the White House, if they wanted.

And one more thing. Surely, James Lileks must know that Chris Columbus wasn't Iberian, but Italian (or Genoese). I suspect he'll get email.