2008, a very strange year, is finally drawing to an end.
If you'd like to pause for a moment to help those who defended both our national security and our national honor from beginning to end, often at enormous personal cost, consider making a tax-deductible contribution to the Wounded Warrior Project. As they say on their site, "the greatest casualty is being forgotten."
End-of-the-year odds and ends:
• The Year in Review, according to the inimitable Dave Barry. "January... in what some economists see as a troubling sign, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac invest $12.7 billion in Powerball tickets."
• Best 50 Astronomy Pictures of the Year 2008
• Andrew Dansby - Year-end best CDs
• A knighthood "for creating a flat world on top of a turtle"