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Saturday night, I saw a performance of David Sedaris Santaland Diaries, in which he recounts his experience as an elf at Macy's. Very amusing. Here is a realplayer file of the Santaland Diaries.

I wish all of you and your families the very best during this holiday season and throughout the new year.

Please accept without obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, politically correct, low stress non-addictive, gender neutral, celebration of the winter solstice holiday practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasions and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all, and a financially successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar year 2005, but with due respect for the calendars of choice of other cultures or sects, and having regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith, choice of computer platform or dietary preference of the Wishee.

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Just kidding. Have a wonderful holiday season, everyone!

Tully! ;-)

I recently read a letter from a soldier in Iraq sent to a co-worker of my wife. I can't disclose the letter, but suffice it to say, it made me feel that, regardless of our positions on the war, we are very lucky to have such people defending the nation. And it also made me angry about the depiction of our troops that you sometimes see that they are just people who couldn't get a job anywhere else.

I think that we can all agree with MWS's post. Thank God we have such brave, caring, selfless individuals over seas fighting for our nation.

With that said, Merry Christmas to everyone. I wish you and your familes, regardless of your political affiliations, the very warmest of Christmases and the very brightest of New Years. Let us hope that on this domain, 2005 can be filled with as much interesting political banter as 2004 has been.

Let us also hope that Iraqi and Ukrainian elections are peaceful and prosperous. And that our soldiers remain safe during the coming year.

On a personal note, please visit the home of my organization Republicans and Democrats for Positive and Issue Oriented Politics (http://www.rdpiop.com). We have launched our Revolution ’06 campaign, so please feel free to visit, sign up, read stories, from 150 newspapers daily, and correspond on our blog as well.