Weekend Update - December 15th

• Well let's start things off this week with something seasonal: Christmas Time with Mike Gravel.
• Here's some GOP bashing by that old Liberal rag, Time Magazine.
• Gift idea for those little Catholic tots on your list, The Anti-Pedophile Coloring Book. Mark Morford reports.
• Finally: A United Iraq!
• Office Max has a promotional program called "Elf Yourself." Here's one Brother Alexander made just for Bad Hat.
• The increase in incomes of the top 1 percent of Americans from 2003 to 2005 exceeded the total income of the poorest 20 percent of Americans. Wonder how that happened?
• BlackWater in Baghdad: "It was a horror movie."
• The Investigations of the Destruction of CIA Torture Tapes: How An ACLU Lawsuit Might Force the Bush Administration To Reveal What Actually Happened. By John Dean.