Doug’s Dynamic Drivel

I can’t say I like very much about the royal family in England, great for tourism and all eh what! A bloody good show and all that rot but otherwise what real use are they? Having said that I’ve always liked Elizabeth. Thrown into it unexpectedly at an early age she rose to the occasion [...]

Mike gets
“Who is your favorite author?” , 7, of West Des Moines asked Mr. Huckabee in one of those posing-like-a-shopping-mall-Santa moments.
Mr. Huckabee paused, then said his favorite author was Dr. Seuss.
In an interview afterward with the news media, Aleya said she was somewhat surprised. She thought the candidate would be reading at a [...]

via Shifting Baselines an old CBS Christmas Greetings commercial from 1966. I remember it well and it’s sad that what was once a joyous family festival has devolved into the mass commercialism we see today. As many pointed out in the post this commercial could never be shown today, it is the antithesis of what [...]