No one has yet improved upon the original “Last Christmas”
In “Santa Baby,” no one nails “to a platinum mine” better than Madonna
“Fairytale of New York” is probably my favorite Christmas song but I wish they didn’t rush through the “You’re a bum/you’re a punk” verse.
If you like “Christmas Wrapping” you should listen to the rest of The Waitresses’ catalog
Xmas songs that deserve more radio love
“Christians and the Pagans”/Dar Williams
“Spotlight on Christmas”/Rufus Wainwright
“Let’s Make Christmas Mean Something This Year”/James Brown
“What We Do on Christmas”/Atom & His Package
“I Did It For the Toys”/Dance Hall Crashers
Joan Jett does my favorite version of Little Drummer Boy. Bob Dylan a solid second.
What holiday songs that have come out in the past 10 years should I put on my holiday playlist?
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Having gotten Obama's memior for Xmas, I was struck at how quickly it grabs you.
Which got me thinking about how well does the intro stand up to past presidential autobiographies and memoirs...
...There have been 16 presidential autobiographies and memoirs, covering that time in office (I'm not counting Grant's, which, while celebrated, is a war memoir from a general).
My first history podcast episode–about the creation of the UN–begins with a seemingly unrelated scandal: when Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles sexually propositioned porters on FDR's train
This got me thinking, is this the 1st WH gay sex scandal?...
...Before the Sumner Welles incident was the 1919 Newport sex scandal, which involved Navy sailors and implicated FDR as Asst Sec to the Navy en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newport_s… . But didn't involve sexual activity among people in the administration...
...But perhaps the Welles incident shouldn't qualify either because the scandal never became public during FDR's presidency, though it was gossiped about and led to Welles' resignation...
...As I previously showed in this thread, during the final two weeks of 2016, Trump had clear signs of strong momentum in several key states (as well as nationally)...
...But his year, during the same period, Trump has only gained more than 1 point on Biden in AZ, IA and MN. Nationally, there's been a mild tightening, with Biden retaining a healthy lead and 50+% vote share...