Overnight Open Thread (12-31-2015) – New Years Eve Edition

Happy New Year All!

Media Corrections of 2015

"Norma Adams-Wade's June 15 column incorrectly called Mary Ann Thompson Frenk a socialist. She is a socialite." - The Dallas Morning News.

"Correction: An earlier version of this article misidentified the number of years E.B. White wrote for The New Yorker. It was five decades, not centuries." -The New York Times.

"Just to keep the record straight, it was the famous Whistler's Mother, not Hitler's, that was exhibited at the recent meeting of the Pleasantville Methodists. There is nothing to be gained in trying to explain how the error occurred." -Titusville (Pa.) Herald.

"Karol Wojtyla was referred to in Saturday's Credo column as "the first non-Catholic pope for 450 years". This should, of course, have read "non-Italian pope." -London Times.

"The Ottawa Citizen and Southam News wish to apologize for our apology to Mark Steyn, published Oct. 22. In correcting the incorrect statements about Mr. Steyn published Oct. 15, we incorrectly published the incorrect correction. We accept and regret that our original regrets were unacceptable." - Ottawa Citizen and Southam News.

Those responsible for sacking the guilty parties at the Ottawa Citizen and Southam News have been sacked.

He Fucking Loves Science Which Is Why He Must Shit All Over Your Human Joys

(Thanks to Slu)

Dave Barry's Year in Review

OK, critics: We have heard you. This year, instead of dwelling on the negatives, we're going to start our annual review with a List of the Top Ten Good Things That Happened in 2015. Ready? Here we go:

1. We didn't hear that much about Honey Boo Boo.

2.

OK, we'll have to get back to you on Good Things 2 through 10. We apologize, but 2015 had so many negatives that we're having trouble seeing the positives. It's like we're on the Titanic, and it's tilting at an 85-degree angle, its propellers way up in the air, and we're dangling over the cold Atlantic trying to tell ourselves: "At least there's no waiting for the shuffleboard courts!"

Are we saying that 2015 was the worst year ever? Are we saying it was worse than, for example, 1347, the year when the bubonic plague killed a large part of humanity?

Yes, we are saying that.

For 2016 Face Your Fears

(via The H2)

Why We Sing "Auld Lang Syne" on New Year's Eve

Because Guy Lombardo's radio show in 1929.

In Search Of...the Pisco Punch

Duncan Nicol died in 1921 and took the secret with him and people have been trying to recreate the cocktail ever since.

The World's Hottest Government Ministers, Ranked

 

Hot Tranny on Tranny Action

New Orleans Cops Solve Spooky Hospital Mystery

Thanks to meddling kids.

Yahoo group. That is all.

Come on be a smartie and join the yahoo group party! For the children. Why do you hate children?

And my lo-fi Twitter spew.

Why I am not despairing and continue to endeavor to persevere:

It is not incumbent upon you to finish the task, but neither are you free to absolve yourself from it.

-- Rabbi Tarfon, Pirkei Avot 2:15-16

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