Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and safe, fun, relaxing holiday weekend. Here's a photo I took today of me and Melissa in front of our tree.
December 2005 Archives
I saw this great cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning, editorial cartoonist, Tony Auth. I think it really captures the essence of what our politically-hypercorrect society has produced.
![[image: tolerant cacophony cartoon by Tony Auth, © 2005 Universal Press Syndicate]](http://www.execnet.net/users/alan/blogs/archives/alanskew/tolerant_cacophony.gif)
Read more about Tony Auth on Slate.com.
 | Melissa and I finished decorating our Christmas tree this weekend. We combined our ornament collections and bought a few new ones together. It think it looks pretty amazing! You can't really see it in this photo with the white window casing in the background, but the star on top of the tree is a wooden snowflake ornament that my Dad made back in 1998. |
| I decided that since I'm celebrating Christmas with my girlfriend Melissa, I would buy a real Christmas tree. We went out on Saturday and bought the tree at St. Bernard's Parish in Newton, MA. It was an adventure securing it to Pearl's roof and then getting it home. Luckily we didn't have to go on the highway. I was surprised at how easy it was getting the tree up to my third-floor apartment. Here's what the tree looks like set up in my front room. Melissa provided the tree base. I hope that we'll have time to decorate it over the next week or two as our schedules seem to be getting more hectic as the holidays approach. | 
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