December 2011
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Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus.
The following editorial, among the most famous ever written, appeared in The New York Sun in 1897. It remains appropriate for this Christmas 114 years later.
IS THERE A SANTA CLAUS?
We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:
Dear...
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wowdudeilikeyourblog:
Beavis and Butt-Head watch Katy Perry’s “Firework”
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jiminycricketandsantaclaus:
Suicide in the Trenches
I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark.
In winter trenches, cowed and glum With crumps and lice and lack of rum, He put a bullet through his brain. No one spoke of him again.
You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when...