Heap o' Links Mon Dec 26, 2022

Several years ago my wife conceived a plan to take over Christmas decorations in our home. She’s been very patient, moving so carefully that I only realized the scope of her plan this year. This fight isn’t over, not by a long shot. But I’ve lost a lot of ground.

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"To be totally frank, almost every conspiracy theory that people had about Twitter turned out to be true." pic.twitter.com/zBDY3AcrRq

— Gretchen (@GretchenOO8) December 25, 2022

I’m not sure how much of a happy Christmas I’ll have since I’m saddled with a nasty head cold and dare not venture outside in this biting cold to visit my parents.

Instead, I’ll spend the morning finishing up the copy for this year’s 10 Most Tiresome People column while taking breaks for the occasional sneezing seizures, or as I like to call them, sneezures, that are so explosive that I scare the cat. Then I’ll park myself on the couch under warm fleece and watch TV.

Woo-hoo! Do I know how to make merry, or what?!

Pelosi ends her final speech as Speaker of the House by wishing everyone a Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah and a "Happy Shwanza" pic.twitter.com/3NQBbhNJF5

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 23, 2022

It is impossible to overstate the importance of the Continental Army’s stunning victory this day in 1776 at the Battle of Trenton. On December 1, 1776, virtually everyone thought the American Revolution over and the American cause lost. All that remained was for the formal negotiation of the colonial surrender.

But George Washington, a man with titanium cajones and inhuman persistence, was not willing to concede defeat. He developed a plan that was one of the most audacious in history — or as he called it, code name “Victory or Death.”

For example, for what it’s worth, there’s the falling-into-water motif… Also, I’ve become aware of several of the characters’ comments in the film about one another’s stupidity.…