• Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village (CrimeReads) In case you are stuck in an Agatha Christie novel.
• Charles Mingus’s Secret Eggnog Recipe Will Knock You on Your Ass  First toilet training your cat, and now a very powerful eggnog.
• Robert E. Lee statue removed from U.S. Capitol – The Washington Post About f%$#ing time 
• NRA urges Americans to wrap guns for under the tree this Christmas | The Independent (The Independent) Not The Onion.
• Pentagon leaders exchange lobbyists for Christmas (Duffel Blog) It’s funny because it is true.
• The End of Efficiency by Robert Skidelsky (Project Syndicate) Someone notes the obvious:  The capitalist quest for efficiency leads to profoundly brittle systems.

I give you the, “Roomba that curses when bumped into things modification.”