25. December, 2002 - Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas. I hope you got sometime better than a lump of coal. After all, you've been good, right?
There may be a white Christmas from coast to coast, but we've still got dirt showing here in Minnesota. First time since 1997 we've had a brown Christmas (using the official definition of 1" or more of snow meaning a white christmas). [scripting]
Without Judge Harry Crump, the Twins might be long gone. A good profile of the judge who saved baseball. [strib]
24-hour drive-thru asks some hard questions about the abuses at airport security I thought about linking to last week, but apparently didn't. Also a photographer supposedly arrested for taking pictures of Cheney's hotel which I did cover . There's a good chance neither story is based in fact. News spreads quickly in the blog world. But there's also a lot of people out there who can fact-check these things and get the facts right in the end. [boing boing]
More on bloggers getting the facts: Trent Lott Gets Bloggered and Bloggers catch what Washington Post missed [warning: popup]. The Trent Lott story had been mostly missed by the mainstream media, but when various people online wouldn't let it die, it became a big deal. [doc]