A friend gave me this puzzle and I can't remember the last time I felt this giddy about receiving a gift.

Every year Canada remembers the 14 women killed in a mass shooting at the Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, which happened in 1989. The women, all engineering students, were targeted by a misogynist with a gun. Tonight Montreal's sky was lit up with beams of light in remembrance of each of them.

Pam Bondi to Democrats:

Finally, I've found something I approve using AI for: morphing the image of Trump and a pig. Apologies to pigs, though.

There is no low they won't sink to.

Not all heroes wear capes. Some wear polka-dot office dresses.

Poor man wants to marry rich woman.

Man doesn't believe in excess. Yet I spy three toy cars when surely he could have made do with one...

This is what liquor stores in BC look like now.

"I have a prior engagement."

Mid-century British fiction is my favorite reading zone, but I was never exposed much to Dorothy Whipple until recently. Last year I read High Wages, a story about a shopgirl's life around WW1. It's a bit of a melodrama, but DW gives the plots several unexpected twists. One of my favorites of 2024.

Watching Bogie films is our holiday tradition, and it's always hard to pass up The Return of Dr. X. I practically consider it a holiday film now.

A Christmas Carol weekend. Hugh Grant's great audiobook version followed by an Alistair Sim Scrooge chaser.