By AFL-CIO  Guest Blogger Tula Connell   We all know about Bad Bosses. But this summer, when Working America held its first-ever My Bad Boss Contest, the roaches really crawled out of the woodwork. Like the boss who told his part-time staff person she had to work longer hours—even though she wanted to spend more [...]

So, last night in the Late Nite thread, reader montag said the following: Very off topic, but, it occurred to me today that the Dems could endear themselves to about half the country, maybe more, if they did something so simple, it’s silly. Just pass legislation for an opt-out list for spam email, just like [...]

Steve Gilliard points us to an article wondering how Gee-Dubya is coping with the stress of turning everything he touches into great steaming piles of shite.  Bush-Watchers Wonder How He Copes With Stress By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Published: December 25, 2006 WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 — President Bush marched into his year-end news conference last week [...]

Reader Bustedknuckles spotted an article in the Baltimore Sun (via RawStory) regarding the lawyering up that the Bush Administration is hurriedly doing prior to the start of the Democratically controlled Congress in January.   According to Charlie Black (who is identified only as a "strategist with close ties to the White House" and not as a long-time GOP [...]

(Photo by AFP/Mandel Ngan) While the Decider is still deciderating what is what with the US Iraq policy — US troops and Iraqis are still being killed.  The NYTimes has an infuriating profile of Mr. Pissy and his refusal to deal with any need for change until the very last minute. But in the last two [...]

The WaPo has some background on the leading Democratic committee staffers who will now shift to running things for the Democratic majority come January.  Here is the profile on some of the staffers from the House, and here is the Senate staffer profile. So much of what gets done on the Hill gets pushed and [...]

  God bless my parents.  Every year they load me down with gifts at Christmas and a lot of the time, they're right on the mark.  This year I got a digital camera (!!) and some other very cool things, but sometimes when it comes to clothes, I have to wonder exactly who it is [...]

  Happy Birthday, Jesus. It’s your day, so I looked up some of the really good things you said, just to remind folks why today is important. “Blessed are those who mourn for they will be comforted” (Matthew 5:4) [We made a lot of people mourn this year, but we've been a little slow on [...]

  Dork Alert:  I know everyone has had their say on their favorite Christmas movie, but mine is Home Alone.  I unapologetically love the story, the filmmaking and McCauley Culkin, and I cry every time. My nephew and I usually watch it at Christmas time but he's 14 now and would probably think it was [...]

I was trying to find a good YouTube of my favorite Christmas carol, "O Holy Night," and unfortunately this was what I came up with. Also for your Christmas day entertainment — clips from the Mr. Hankey episode in Japanese. Enjoy.