Merry Christmas

Drive and Dish wishes all our readers and friends a Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas from Drive and Dish. Due to massive staff layoffs over the last two and a half years at our palatial Drive and Dish corporate headquarters, we've been a bit shorthanded ( the mail room guys really got hit hard; everybody here feels bad for them), and haven't been able to keep the franchise running at full strength. As such, the volume of our posts has dropped off significantly since 2008. But as basketball season picks up in 2011, we'll be posting occasional commentary on college basketball, and to lesser degree, on the NBA.

Until then (or at least until our annual, "very special" New Year's post), we extend our sincere wishes of a very Merry Christmas to all our readers, and to their families and friends. And no, we're not political correctness enforcement-freaks who want to get rid of Christmas, or scared little wuss-boys who say "happy Hannuhkwanzaaramadan," "happy Winter solstice," or "happy holidays" because we're afraid to say "Merry Christmas." If you're offended by the Christmas precepts of peace on Earth and good will to men (regardless of your cultural background, religious faith, or lack thereof), it's probably time to take inventory of your life. It's almost certain that you're a miserable prick who should go forth and screweth thy self.
Really, religious issues aside, who could possibly be against peace and good will toward men!?! Merry Christmas!

(Picture: "Oh Christmas Tree," Jesse Barnes, 1992).

Merry Christmas

On behalf of the entire staff here at Drive and Dish, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and yours. We'd like to thank you for taking time out of your busy holiday schedules to visit our little basketball blog. We hope that our efforts bring joy and cheer to your web surfing sessions, especially in this holiday season.

May there be peace on Earth, good will toward man, and may all your hoop dreams come true.

Oh, and for your viewing pleasure, we've included the following pictures of Christmas from around the world. We hope that you'll enjoy them.

Once again, Merry Christmas, and thanks for stopping by:


Above: Christmas in Aleppo, Syria

Christmas in Beirut, Lebanon

Christmas in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Christmas in Tokyo, Japan

Christmas in Athens, Greece

Christmas in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Christmas in Moscow, Russia

Christmas in Bern, Switzerland


First image (above text): Christmas in Copenhagen, Denmark

Flashback:

Last year, Drive and Dish showed a Christmas scene from Prague, Czech Republic.

Update:

I guess Drive and Dish isn't the only blog that thought a "Christmas around the world" post would be a cool thing to publish. It was on Christmas eve that the editorial staff here at Drive and Dish made the decision to create such a post. As such, we spent several hours scouring the web for pictures of Christmas celebrations from far and wide. The post was published on Christmas morning.

But after Power Line blog attached a similar "Christmas around the world" feature to a post that originally offered musings about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinijad's Christmas address to the UK on British television (yes, you read that right: as a special Christmas gift, a British television network invited the kufir [infidel]-hating, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran to scold the British public for their evil ways) on Christmas night, people will probably just think that we ripped the idea off from them.

Who knows, maybe they ripped the idea off of us.