christmas

all wrapped up

by: los anjalis

Fri Dec 25, 2009 at 17:08:02 PM PST

Imagine arriving home to find that everything in your house, down to the beverages in your fridge, is wrapped in christmas wrapping paper. A guy in Chicago was the target of such a prank by his friends. He's still unwrapping everything (35 wrapping paper rolls worth). But the aww in the story is this:

He jokes that the upside is that, with each package he unwraps, he finds something inside that's just what he needs.

Here's to rediscovering that we've got all we need. (Thanks to tanya karakashian for sharing the article).

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'twas the night before christmas and all through the senate...

by: los anjalis

Thu Dec 24, 2009 at 17:50:43 PM PST

The US Senate convened today -- the day before Christmas -- and passed the Senate's version of the famed health insurance reform bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This bill will move into conference committee with the House of Representatives' version of the bill in January, before finall passage (Previous discussion of this week's Senate events here). It is not a common occurrence to meet the day before Christmas. The last time the Senate held a roll call on Christmas Eve was in the year 1895, when Senators lifted a ban on government officers who had joined the Confederacy from serving in the post-Civil War military. Below are other interesting facts about the Senate.

Today (Christmas Eve) marked the 25th straight day of debate. This is just short of the record for the longest number of consecutive days that the Senate was in session, in the winter of 1917 (thanks to @wonkroom on Twitter for this fact). The extended debate in 1917 was due to anti-war legislators stalling debate about whether or not to arm US merchant ships during World War I ... (more below)

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