Woody's Christmas Present

It's been rainy lately and the snow at our altitude was mostly gone. Last night the rain turned into beautiful light fluffy snow. Woody just about exploded with doggy joy. "It's back! Yummy yummy yum."

"Mmmmmmmm . . . snow's the best thing ever."

Top five least popular Christmas presents:

5. The new Tiger Woods game – you drive an SUV, dodging angry wives, mistresses, golf clubs and fire hydrants while trying to hang on to your endorsement contracts.

4. The new musical game – Extreme Polka: Accordion Hero.

3. A McCain campaign visor, rogued-up Sarah Palin-style.

2. The Glenn Beck fun pack: a Bible, a gun, a chalkboard, a box of teabags and a stocking full of psychotic rantings.

1. The Woody fun pack: snow Snow SNOW, yummy fluffy delicious wonderful SNOW!






He’s in for a rough weekend. It’s been mild here and we had rain yesterday so his beloved snow is disappearing already. Maybe his little doggie mind is thinking, “Wow, that was a short winter.”

Happy Holidays from Evil Dog

Even the booties were better than this.

"The joke's on them. The magic antlers turn me into EVIL DOG!"

Thank you, Faux News

Oh, Faux News, thank you for keeping us endlessly entertained. Informed, not so much. More like "infromed," as you'll see below. FNC management recently instituted a “zero tolerance” policy for on-screen errors, but if that’s the case, why don’t all the network’s “journalists” have bags over their heads?

Top five graphics illustrating how Fox News keeps us “informed”:

5. The other so-called “news networks” only tell us what 100% of poll respondents think. Only Fox has the balls to cover all 193% of the electorate.

4. There's a damn good reason why, when asked to create a graphic for the Lincoln/Douglas debates, a Fox News staffer chose Frederick Douglass. He couldn't find a picture of Oliver Douglas from "Green Acres."

3. What’s a producer to do when a poll doesn’t give you the results you’re hoping for? Get out the calculator. They arrived at these wacky percentages by adding together the results for “somewhat likely” and “very likely,” then keeping the “very likely” total in a category of its own even though that number had already been incorporated into the “somewhat” category, and completely throwing out the 15% total for “not sure.” Ta-da!

So they falsified poll results on a poll about falsifying research. Who says Fox News has no sense of irony?

2. This speaks for itself.  

1. In my first effort at creating the chart below, Excel attempted to convert the numbers into percentages that would add up to 100. Silly, silly Excel. You know nothing of journalism.