I'm fairly conservative but this made me laugh.

Yeah the kids from his first wife probably weren't well served by their mother either. I believe she was a self destructive alcoholic?

The book is a treasure

I like the scene where old man Macy decides to testify that he believes Kris to be the real Santa. It shows that he believes it's a good business choice…but he also believes it in his heart a little as well.

The original miracle on 34th street is indispensable this time of year

I didn't think those allegations were set in stone. His other kids denied it as I recall.

That scene honestly frightened me as a kid

The part in holiday inn where Crosby duets on white Christmas is magic though.

Ah kids are the worst. When my kid was four i complied a long YouTube playlist of classic Christmas bits like the original Rudolph cartoon from the forties. My kid threw a red ass mad fit on Christmas Eve until we switched to some nick jr pablum. I've been more open to the idea of adoption ever since.

She referred to herself as a 90s baby. I just reflected on how I was a vaguely mature man in the 90s but if you were born in the 90s you are now old enough to drink and fornicate

Her second song made me feel older than usual

I find England and Texas to be pretty far apart, culturally.

She did treat Manchester bad but it's difficult to hold any anger angainst her. She lived through a very challenging event one that might have completely broken some people

I thought JFK wasn't going to commit large forces to Vietnam?

I thought it was readable. But I'm no authority on the subject matter. He used outdated secondary sources right?

Roger Miller songs are great in it

Yep. And then you discover that his works are dismissed by "serious" historians.

His Churchill bios are so moving

Eisenhower was not happy with the confusion over LBJ needing to sworn in. His point was than in the nuclear age everyone needed to understand the chain of command and how it worked so the soviets couldn't decapitate our leadership.

Russian gangster baroque thanks for the laugh