An American Christmas Carol

Or, who exactly is responsible for the "coarsening" of American society?

Administrative Matters

As with Thanksgiving week (which I think I failed to announce in advance—apologies!), The Bugbear Dispatch will be taking off the last two weeks of December and return in the New Year—probably on January 3, since I seem to have landed on a Saturday publication schedule (subject to change), which works well with my current routine w…