Two interesting pieces from today's Chicago Tribune (still reg. req'd).



In fun news, Eric Zorn has a column about Rudolph's acceptance speech in his victory over Frosty.

The final returns are in, and we are shouting out with glee: Not only do all the reindeer love Rudolph, but so do nearly two out of three voters!



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Ten minutes ago I received a call from Mary Schmich over at Frosty the Snowman headquarters--no, no, no booing, please, we must be gracious--congratulating us on our 62-to-38 percent victory in last week's Rudolph vs. Frosty poll at chicagotribune.com.



She wished Rudolph well during his term as top holiday novelty song. She said Frosty has dropped his request for a recount of all 1,265 votes and now is planning to grow a beard and begin teaching graduate-level seminars at Northwestern University.



We thanked her for the tough battle. And, yes, it did get nasty there. In her pro-Frosty column last week, Mary called Rudolph a drunk and a whiner and implied he was in league with Satan, simply because Satan and Santa are anagrams. Later, one of her associates disseminated a document referring to "that red-nosed idiot."



Contributing reader Rose Soto wrote in that Rudolph's message was "mean-spirited." Debbie Mercer called him "smarmy" and charged that Rudolph "glorifies bullying and exclusion of those who are different."



Our side responded in kind. I referred to Frosty as a frivolous, deceitful scofflaw and a "naked mound of perambulating slush," though I now regret those remarks and contend they were taken out of context.



Rudolphile Thomas Saaristo trumpeted "Frosty's connection to the highly questionable and Wiccan-connected practice of magic." Maureen Perkins blasted the F-man as an "inanimate object that suddenly comes alive. [He's] creepy ... only a few steps away from horror movies and Chucky."

Ah, yes. Happy holidays.



In less than fun news, here's a snippet from the lead story on North Korea.

Russia accused President Bush of igniting the crisis by including North Korea, along with Iraq and Iran, in the "axis of evil" in his State of the Union speech last January.



"How should a small country feel when it is told that it is all but part of forces of evil of biblical proportions and should be fought against until total annihilation?" Russia's deputy foreign minister, Georgy Mamedov, told the Vremya Novosti newspaper in Moscow. "There is no use expecting countries included in the `axis of evil' to remain passive."



Washington is counting on Moscow, which has cultivated good relations with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il, to use its clout to try to ease the North's belligerence.

Interesting. Not sure what Russia is trying to accomplish with that baseless statement.

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