Due to lack of permalinks, just go here and find the bits about Franklin Raines. He's asking why a former Mondale campaign manager and former Clinton buddy Franklin Raines aren't being called into account as CEOs who have run Fanne Mae poorly.

I mean, duh. If Fannie Mae were run by someone who knew someone in Texas who once donated money to the Bush campaign, this would be huge. HUGE! A sign of corporate greed run amok, etc. and so on. Instead, you have bigtime Democrats running a semi-government corporation into the ground. Yawn, says the press.

Kaus isn't usually so shy.

"And there were in the same country shepherds, abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them! And they were sore afraid ... And the angel said unto them, "Fear not! For, behold, I bring you tidings o great joy, which shall be to all my people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ, the Lord."

"And this shall be a sign unto you: Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger." And suddenly, there was with the angel a multitude of the Heavenly Host praising God, and saying, "Glory to God in the Highest, and on Earth peace, and good will toward men."

"That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown." - Linus Van Pelt

For those who dropped by and left nice comments, thanks. I'm not going away, but blogging likely very light until the New Year.

Best wishes to you and yours. Peace on Earth, and Good Will Toward Men.

UPDATE: Rich Galen. That is all.

As I have been spending time doing some remodeling in the house, working, and preparing for the holidays, blogging has dropped to near zero, ans so has the visitor count. As the saying goes, no free ice cream, people stop dropping by. I think the right way to this would be to get petulant at some hate email I received, and to wonder for a while whether to continue blogging at all, and then to ponder that idea publicly for a while with no actual content, and then go on hiatus to decide.

That woulda worked better, I think.