It's that season of the year -- Hanukkah, Christmas, New Year...Solomonia's been in low gear of late (you noticed?). Wife's out of town you know? Enjoying the bachelor life. Perfect time for it. Doing a lot of shoveling, too. It's always nice when the snow comes down during the hours you're at home. Nothing to do for it but heat the mead and keep up with it by walking the driveway with the plow/shovel every couple of inches. It's a much better situation than when you wake up with a foot of snow on the ground you have to muscle through. It's nice exercise to boot.

Hope you're all having a lovely holiday season!

Have you been following this spat between Ron Rosenbaum and Jeff Jarvis? Rosenbaum is too kind to his friends in the MSM (there are plenty of good beat reporters out there, but too many, and too many editors and publishers getting exactly what they deserve), but his criticism of the insufferable Jarvis and his endless philosophizing on blogging and social media is spot on. I used to like Jarvis a lot, but he's taken on the persona of one of those guys corporations bring in to give speeches about "subverting the dominant paradigm" that the staff needs to suffer through before getting back to work.