Just a big stuffed toy wiith baby breath.

Glenn Reynolds says – “EVEN HARD DRIVES ARE going green.”
Simon sez – “Oh right, NancyBoy boxes.”

h/t

Open thread.
Update: Liberal Party reaction here
Plus – Post-budget analysis I could have written myself.

A problem I’ve been grappling with:

How large is this seemingly bottomless pit of non-renewable “innocence” we keep losing?
Is there such a thing as “peak” innocence?
How does the city of Toronto manage to lose its so often. (Is it growing back?)
Is lost innocence surrounded by mountains of unmatched socks?
Responses that provide equations preferred.
(As you may have noticed, I’m in a philosophical mood today.)
Update – Looks like we have our answer.

But this is still the comment of the week;

I’m probably going to burn for this but when I saw all those LAWYERS protesting in their suits. And then the cops started beating those protesting LAWYERS and I realized thats not right but then again they were LAWYERS but oh the humanity but they were LAWYERS so in the end I was rooting for the cops and screaming get that one and that one. Then the wife was yelling GET OFF THE COUCH AND PUT THE CLICKER DOWN.

Doctors Against Forced Organ Harvesting.
Does anyone else find it troubling that doctors feel the need for a special interest organization to address this?

Heh.

Three seasons on a deserted island, You’d think the fat guy would lose a few pounds.

Are welcome in the comments. Remember – I said three.

Christmas Greeting from the Prime Minister.
Christmas in Kandahar You can pass along your own greetings at this CF message board.
Update: “Defence Minister Peter MacKay served up turkey and tourtière to the Canadian troops in Afghanistan on Christmas Day,”
Return to Bethlehem.
Reagan’s Christmas message from 1981.
There’s one at every party. “Peace on Earth, Ill Will Towards Men.”
Add your own Christmas related links or messages in the comments.

Like Fargo^[1], this is a movie that grows on you.

Or it did on me.
Footnotes:
[1] The only film I’ve ever seen that accurately^[2] depicts winter on the northern plains.
[2] Except for the part with the blood in the trees.

Trust the bride to choose a dress from the Beheaded Line.
(Tangentially related)

Learn about it at Alberta Advantage.

Regular SDA reader (and he adds – frequent Weblog Awards vote caster) Gary Valcour is requesting your assistance in the final round of the National Post’s “Canada — in six words or less” contest.
It’s an entry worthy of SDA support, I do believe!

The National Post is having a contest – Canada in six words or less.

There’s a lot to like about our country, but thus far, the vast majority of entries have surprisingly been negative and, often, rather political. Judging by their suggestions, Jeff Spooner and Al Blow think that we’re a mediocre country, and proud of it: The former offered us “Canada: Birthplace of mediocrity” and the latter’s “Canada: Mediocre and reasonably proud of it” was a slightly more ironic variation on the same theme. Ori Rubin, who worked on the motto problem while raking leaves in the backyard with his dad, offered a similarly wry message: “Because the world needs more vanilla.”

h/t Darcey.

Lots more at the Monarchist for those of you who (like me) missed it. (link fixed)