Boxing Day Roundup

Ross Douthat writes the column I was thinking of writing after yesterday's car ride rant. This excellent article further illuminates one of the situations Mr. Douthat discusses (not the one about how you'd have to be a moron to suspect that someone who takes advice from Larry Summers and Robert Gates is a closet Marxist-Leninist, and how Obama is somehow both that and a corporate pawn, but the one about how you can choose symbolism over results but that helps no one). And how anyone who was paying attention has no business being shocked.

Oh, Catholic Church--why don't you deal with your epic child molestation problem and then go telling people what's "morally unacceptable".

There has been a slew of articles about how everyone's toning down Christmas (decorations, gifts, etc.) and another slew just about gifts and how silly they are and then again they are good for something after all. I'm not going to search for them or post them because my parents' computer is brutally slow and you get the point.