Originally published on Mon December 24, 2012 12:40 pm
Sorry, Google. Sorry, NORAD.
Your online "Santa trackers" are cool.
But that jolly old elf has you both fooled.
Good morning.
Our headlines from over the weekend and early today included:
-- Ho-Ho-Hum Last Shopping Weekend As 'Fiscal Cliff' Loomed.
-- Syrian Airstrikes Hit Bakery: 'Piles Of Bodies'.
The "money quote" from the weekend's Boston Globe account of the "Story Behind Mitt Romney's Loss":
Mark Shoopman is into green beans. The Illinois chef is cooking 270 pounds of beans and 75 pounds of onions. His goal, according to WMBD in Peoria, is the largest green bean casserole in Central Illinois.