Photo via Heather Garland.

I'm dusting off the airblown lawn snowglobe nativity scene snark.  (No, I'm not kidding.  You honestly can buy an inflatable nativity scene that pelts the baby Jesus with fake plastic snow.)   As I said in the original post:

Nothing says "We're religious!" quite like having an inflatable lawn ornament that pelts the Christ child with fake plastic snow bits, let me tell you. I feel diminished in the eyes of the Lord because we don't have one....

As usual, Kung Fu Monkey sums up the current seasonal in-your-face-ness with the appropriate level of snark.  Classy, indeed.  This year, though, I thought I'd pull together some links to some other laughs around the internets.  Because, frankly, who can't use some HO HO HO this year?

--  Go elf yourself.

-- Oh, the snark:

A grand total of 18 staff members and supporters -- some wearing pins proclaiming "Proud member of Tom's Army Against Amnesty" -- stood to the side and fought back tears. Adding to the pain, the Marriott restaurant, just steps from the meeting room where Tancredo quit the race, was serving a "South of the Border Thursday" lunch buffet.

The supporters passed by the restaurant and went upstairs to a hotel room to mourn their candidate's departure from the race. Conveniently, all the Tancredo supporters were able to fit in one elevator.

Pam has more at Pandagon.   For the record, Tancredo threw his paltry support to Willard.  There's a match made in a clown car, as Pam puts it.  Especially amusing given this YouTube where Tancredo says Willard supports amnesty.

-- Is our candidates learning?

--  The Phoenix has gathered all the year's cool phrases so you can pretend to know what you are talking about online.  Whew, thank goodness, because Double Gitmo lives on in infamy.  (via Digby)

-- The stupid.  Ow.  It burns.

-- Creepiest photo of the week.  

-- Making Light on fun with pollsters.

-- Not funny in the ha ha sort of way, but more in the WTF way:  why do so many in the press point out the failings of their profession without ever bothering to correct the probems themselves?  Anyone?  And while I'm at it, can someone get to Stoller's questions, too -- what gives?  And speaking of WTF...

-- Bringing the nation together, GOP/Huckabee-style.  "Compassionate conservative" makes a comeback of sorts.  Meanwhile, skippy has some thoughts on Ron Paul's donor base.  lambert has a few questions about the treatment of dogs.  (warning:  not funny at all)  And GroupNewsBlog tackles Rudy.

--  Wolcott dispatches the fact free among us.

-- Would be funny...if there weren't so much truth to it.  (Well, not really funny.  SIGH)

-- And, finally, the NYTimes put together "the year's memorable political lines" into a sometimes humorous, sometimes flatter'n a pancake attempt at snarking on political idiocy.  I just know there is better material out there, so I thought I'd give everyone a shot at one-upping them.  Go to it.