What’s Christmas without a little Brian Setzer? Why, it’d hardly be Christmas at all, and that’s the truly odd part about it. Back in the early 80’s, never in my wildest Stray-Cats-pompadour dreams did I think that Setzer would turn into a holiday icon. Yet here he is, in all his greaser glory:

Yep. Now it’s Christmas, dammit.

Politics
Low Times: The New York Times published a letter from Bertrand Delanoë, mayor of Paris, that expressed his rather strong opposition to Caroline Kennedy taking over Hillary Clinton’s vacated Senate seat. The problem? The letter was a fake, which would have been obvious had the Times spent five minutes on fact checking. The paper has apologized. 
Zimbabwe to Bush: Leave Quietly: Granted, most of the world is hoping that the Bush administration makes it out the door without doing any more damage. But Zimbabwe is reacting to comments made by Assistant Secretary of State …