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This is a companion post to my definitive list of the best Christmas songs and the best versions of those song.   In this list I don't bother with versions because these songs are so execrable that figuring out degrees of awfulness doesn't interest me.  To get on the list, the songs must be from the modern era (not traditional), truly bad and yet,  somehow still widely played along with the rest of the holiday canon. 5) The Little Drummer Boy 4) Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time 3) Last Christmas I gave You My Heart 2) Santa Baby 1) Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer If you are a really glutton for punishment, check out this Esquire list of horrible holiday music that (thankfully) isn't widely played. [The Christina Aguilera version of 'Oh Holy Night' gets my vote for "The Worst Song Ever", if anyone ever has the nerve to compile that list. ]

Chris Wallace, who some regard as a legitimate journalist,   is leaving Fox so there is officially no need to go on pretending that Fox is a legitimate news station.…

I'm treading on Alby's territory here but I'm a few beers in so here is the definitive list of the "Top Ten Best Christmas Songs & Best Versions of Them " 10) Hallelujah - Pentatonix ‘Christmas Time Is Here’ - A Charlie Brown Christma 9) Fairytale of New York - The Pogues 8) It's Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) - U2 7) Father Christmas - The Kinks 6) All I want for Christmas is You - Mariah Carey 5) Happy Xmas (war is Over) - John Lennon 4) Baby Its Cold Outside - Glee Cast 3) Santa Claus is Coming to Town - Bruce Springsteen 2) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland 1) The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole

Check out the losers and has-beens sponsoring this $1,000 per plate fundraiser for the New Jersey celebrity running for Senate in PA. I mean Mike Castle... Mike Castle for fuck…

I don't know much about the the flag of North Dakota other than the fact that the design is an almost exact copy of the unit banner carried by the state's troop contingent in the Philippine–American War. (per wikipedia) I only put it here to trick you into listening to this week's Highlands Bunker, which deals with a film called Welcome to Leith

Job openings in the U.S. approached record levels in October while the number of people quitting eased off its record pace but remained historically high, the Labor Department reported. If you want a low paying, de-humanizing grind - you are in LUCK!

Biden's "Build Back Better" has been trimmed to the bone in part because Coons signaled a willingness to give up half of the projected $400 billion plan prior to day one. Now, with Senate action scheduled in the coming weeks Machine and Sinema are threatening additional cuts. But don't worry. This WaPO article is here to let you know that Chris Coon is on it.

“Relationships, understanding where another senator is coming from and being respectful of their frame and their concerns is the best way to be persuasive with any senator,” said Sen. Christopher A. Coons (D-Del.)

Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., will resign from Congress to become CEO of Trump's fledgling "Media & Technology Group" next month. Nunes, who boasts of being a dairy farmer, will begin…

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The item below was posted to the "Even More Patriotic Patriots for Delaware" FB page. I agree with the sentiment 100%. The Democratic Party “leadership” doesn’t have any fight in…

I mentioned Haiti in the last one of these, and as it happens - Haiti's flag as an origin story.  This is it, in brief. Sugar cultivation in what was…

The Babados flag consists of a triband of two bands of ultramarine, which are said to stand for the ocean surrounding the country and the sky, separated by a golden…