Tucker: Can I kick it?

My Austrian friend always complained about how half hearted Canadian Christmas seemed compared to back in Vienna. All the drinking of hot mulled wine from vendors in the streets and snacking on chestnuts and market-going and so on. I felt a little burned 'we have lovely Christmas things here!" and then I looked up…

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Starred this JUST for the LEGO Space Monorail.

It worked on me when I was a kid. Kept asking for the (insanely expensive) LEGO Space Monorail, and every time it didn't materialize my parents would do this wideyed "well we TOLD Santa to get that for you, what the hell is his problem" routine. Successfully diverted my wrath to an imaginary scapegoat. My letters to…

"A little thing that can turn into anything at anytime."

Every year my daughter writes extensive Christmas lists and demands a tree, two requests I never grant. She is always confused as to why. I just don't have the heart to tell her we're Jewish.

1. Let's all guess what the most frequently-occurring ballot will be (e.g., four or five names, Maddux/Glavine, etc.)

Yeah, but the driver waited ha;f an hour to get through the Belmont/Ashland/Lincoln intersection.

A Bears fan leaves burn marks on someone and then a cop shows up to arrest him... somebody must have called the Brandin' Marshal.