Bing Crosby didn’t have to dream of a white Christmas — he could bank on it. The crooner was from Spokane, a city that is among the most likely to have a white Christmas each year. According to weather experts, Spokane has a white Christmas about 70 percent [...]
KerriT/OnLocation North Idaho writes: Nothing says Christmas like ... shotgun shell lights on the tree. These, and other outdoors-themed lights like Coleman lanterns, are displayed at Cabela's in Post Falls.
Spokane reports another swine-flu death/John Stucke, SROne truck, 3500 pounds of cheese/Sarah Rose Fredlund, Shoshone News-PressAlbertson [...]"In today's very early hours, the Hagadone Corporation tested its annual Christmas decoration displays," e-mails Don Sausser, HBO's Eye On Sherman Avenue. "The 50-foot lighted tree topping the headquarters building required follow up to get everything properly lit."
Idaho Records/Sherry Adkins, SRTravel weather still looking good/Mike Prager, SRCdA schools [...]
For those playgoers who have not yet experienced the slapstick charms of Tuna, the “third smallest town in Texas,” here’s a hint: Imagine “King of the Hill” meets “Benny Hill.” In other words, “A Tuna Christmas,” consists of redneck humor delivered by two male actors who each dress up [...]
Nazi Germany celebrated Christmas without Christ with the help of swastika tree baubles, 'Germanic' cookies and a host of manufactured traditions, a [...]
First, you should join me in applauding another terrific effort by CindyH in keeping this blog hopping while I was on vacation last week. (Point of order: I have only one more week of vacation left on my docket -- to be taken around Christmas time.) I need to get caught [...]
Michael Moore, editor of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, sits with the Doomsday Clock in Chicago in 1998.
In case you've been worried about the Mayan Long Count calendar, which will run out on Dec. 21, 2012, just in time to ruin Christmas, the folks at the Discovery Channel offer reassurance:' [...]
While preparing for my conferences I started to think about what I would
like parents to know about teachers. Here are a few of them:
Don Sausser, HBO's Eye on Sherman Avenue, writes: "You know that the Christmas Holidays are approaching when Resort personnel are seen hanging lights on a blustery day."
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My latest piece is up at Pajamas Media in which I take on the ACLU.
We’re past Halloween and approaching Christmas and gearing up for the biggest battles in the highest stakes contact sport there is. No, we’re not talking about college football’s bowl season. Rather, ’tis the season for [...]
My 8-year-old daughter announced that she wants a skateboard for Christmas. My response: "Absolutely not, never in a million years, just get over it." She already has a bike, a scooter, and a pair of roller skates. Enough is enough. Am I wrong?
Question: Would you let your 8YO [...]
Two cows eat a pumpkin at Northern Lights Christmas Tree Farm in Pleasant Hill, Ore. Monday. (AP Photo/The Register-Guard, Kevin Clark)
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Have you looked at a calendar lately? Well, I’m sitting here, in shock, staring at my 2009 calendar. The awful truth has struck me: We’re about to start a new decade. We’ve got Halloween, we’ve got Thanksgiving, we’ve got Christmas, and then, bam, we’ll have to start breaking in the 2010s. [...]
