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Dumbest comment of the year from an antivaccinationist?

While I’m recharging a bit from the Christmas festivities yesterday to the point where soon I’ll be able to write a substantive post, full of the Respectful Insolence™ and science or medicine that readers have come to expect, here’s something to amuse (I hope). On Sunday, I wrote a not-so-respectfully insolent takedown of a truly […]

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Holiday Movable Type weirdness

We interrupt this post-holiday blogging slowdown for an important blog housekeeping message. Something weird happened to Respectful Insolence™ over the weekend before Christmas. Sunday, I was composing a little missive to autopost over the holidays. I went to the pulldown menu in Movable Type to assign a category to it and noticed something odd. There […]

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The joy of Christmas, take 3: David Bowie and Bing Crosby, two great tastes that taste great together

Bowie and Bing. Christmas. What more needs to be said? Consider this making up for the last Christmas video. Simply awesome.

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The joy of Christmas, take 2: It’s a nice day for a white Christmas…

I think my eyes are bleeding: Maybe this one will be better: Only a little. At least it rocks a bit and is a tad warped in its outlook. That counts for something. In any case, what are you doing here messing around on the Internet and watching silly Christmas videos? Shouldn’t you be with […]

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The joy of Christmas, take 1: Scared of Santa

It’s Christmas Eve, and nothing says Christmas like Santa Claus. And nothing says Christmas quite as much as the terrified reactions of some little children when they see Santa Claus and realize that they’re Scared of Santa. There are lots more where these two pictures came from here, here, and here. Merry Christmas!