Cheap Shots Holiday Edition

Most of these will have absolutely nothing to do with "the holidays."

• Y'all know about Canada? That country north of here we all pretend to like, but as soon as they're out of earshot we immediately go back to assessing how fantastically irrelevent they are? Yeah, well, their Prime Minister is awesome--the lone voice of sanity in a sea of diplomatic posturing. See why here. Soundbite: Stephen. Harper. Is. My. Hero.
• Youth Specialties gets noticed by CBS. Last time a packed Christian event was in the mainstream media news (reference GodMen in the previous Cheap Shots), it wasn't so pretty, and it looks like another comment war arose at CBS. The chase: To my fellow Christians: will the real apologist please stand up; the rest of you, just shut up--it's kinda embarrassing.
• ThinkChristian has an interesting letter from God about the "War on Christmas." Fascinatingly, the author apparently wasn't quite as inspired as St. Paul. Otherwise, he may have known that putting Christmas in place of a pagan holiday is one of many theories about the date's origin. For next time: Wikipedia is your friend.
• The bookstore at which I am employed sold a book to Anne Rice. Yes, that Anne Rice. But, in case you don't know, she is now this Anne Rice. For the gossip page of People: she ordered a 1908 edition of the classic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
• It is now 2:30 AM on Friday, December 22nd which means the Uganda mission team is on their way home. So far as I've heard, there have been no deaths, Tanner (unfortunately) is not returning with tribal tattoos and extended ears and 'Dra did not get to adopt her foreign child.

This concludes this edition of Cheap Shots. Tune in next time (whenever that is) to find out about the things you already learned from the local news channel.