  yeah, good morning. how nice. everyone is assembled at home, the maid is cooking something at this hour, and... no presents. oh ho ho ho. also a good morning to read dense material on the abrahamic beliefs. yeah right.
anyway, errrr, i had pancakes this morning. it isn't even good to start with; we have only faux maple syrup and only a bit of margarine left. and the pancakes were literally paper-thin. don't ask me how she made them. anyway, shove it. our foreign correspondents wrote a bit about howard dean, and is an okay introduction to howard dean the person, but is otherwise not very good anyway. but wesley clark is a very, very impressive fellow. he's more balanced, when you consider the person *and* the politics *and* the anti-bushness about him. anyway, bush needs to go. he's fucking up the world. at least matt groening would be happier. bye. 
