1. The final month of the year has arrived. This is the first Monday of December and there are only four Mondays remaining in the year. Where did it go? I cannot begin to comprehend the time compression of 2025, but I can almost hear 2026 striving to be born.
2. Family NFL Report. The ugly NFL season continues for the family teams. They went 2-4 during the past week. The only good news is that the Steelers and Ravens are currently fighting for the AFC North Division lead at 6-6--which is really miserable if you think of it. I want to mention the Commanders who went for the win last night against the Broncos, but failed. The family teams are now collectively 32-39-1, .451 for the year. The prospects of posting an overall winning record by the end of the season grow ever dimmer.
Ravens (6-6) were mauled by Bengals (4-8), 14-32
Dolphins (5-7) drowned Saints (2-10), 21-17
Commanders (3-9) went for the win and lost to Broncos (10-2), 26-27
Cowboys (6-5-1) stunned Chiefs (6-6), 31-28
Steelers (6-6) stampeded by Bills (8-4), 7-26
Merry Christmas from Bob and Chris
3. Chris and I had our Christmas picture taken yesterday. Thanks to Patrick for decorating his house in such an inviting manner and including a photo stop. Yea, this will be an image on our Christmas card.
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| Dinosaur Christmas Decoration Odenton, MD November 29, 2025 |
4. I have been enjoying the Christmas decorations. One in particular makes me smile, the dinosaur in my daughter's front yard. I'm not sure how a dinosaur could be a Christmas decoration, but it works.
5. Conflicts of Interest. The U.S. government always had strict rules of ethics which prevented presidents from using their office to amass incredible wealth while in office. Trump has destroyed those rules. Here is a paragraph from an article in the Guardian:
Trump’s eldest sons, Don Jr and Eric, formally the custodians of the family business, are conducting a global dealmaking blitz. They have broken ground on new golf courses, received permission for new skyscrapers, rented out the Trump brand, and in cryptocurrency they have embraced a venture with the capacity to bring in more than everything that has gone before. (The Guardian)
6. Is anyone else concerned that the U.S. is about to go to war with Venezuela? Wait, it cannot be a war, legally. Are we on the verge of becoming a pariah nation just like Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea?
7. Today in History. In Montgomery, Alabama on December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks is jailed for refusing to give up her seat on a public bus to a white man, a violation of the city’s racial segregation laws. The successful Montgomery Bus Boycott, organized by a young Baptist minister named Martin Luther King Jr., followed Park’s historic act of civil disobedience.
“The mother of the civil rights movement,” as Rosa Parks is known, was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913. She worked as a seamstress and in 1943 joined the Montgomery chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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-- Bob Doan, Odenton, MD
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