Happy Holidays to all Clear Thinkers from my lovely wife Susan and me. We appreciate you checking on our small slice of the blogosphere from time to time.
In my Hayes Carll post from a few weeks ago, I noted the grand tradition of Texas songwriters, one of whom is Robert Earl Keen. A number of years ago, Keen wrote and recorded one of the funniest Texas-oriented Christmas songs that I have ever heard, and now he has the video below to go along with it. For a slice of quintessential Texas culture, don’t miss it:

Finally, each Christmas season since 1949, the Wall Street Journal has published the late Vermont Royster‘s classic op-ed In Hoc Anno Domini, which is passed along in its entirety after the break below. Regardless of one’s religious persuasion or whether one has a religion at all, Royster’s short essay is a wonderful reminder of the extraordinary impact that an unlikely Jewish man of 2000 years ago had on the course of the human condition:

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