Merry Christmas!
And joy to the world from the Cosmopolitan Globalists
The Cosmopolitan Globalists wish our Christian friends the merriest of Christmases.
Our annual tradition
Now, for the rest of you, it’s time for our annual tradition: Jewish Christmas!
To our Druze, Jewish, Rastafarian, Hindu, Jain, Buddhist, Sikh, Bahá’Ã, Shinto, Orthodox Christian, Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Bábist, Confucian, Muslim, Taoist, Wicca, Druid, Santeria, Falun Gong, and plain old Godless friends, we wish you a Merry Jewish Christmas, one and all, with Chinese food, a movie, and a good traditional kvetch that everything’s closed and there’s nothing to do.
This year on Christmas, like last year, we’ve opened the comments section on this post to everyone, for free. Just for today, you don’t have to be a paying subscriber to meet one another, chat with us, and tell us what you’d like us to write about this year. So come on over and introduce yourself. Movie recommendations, anyone?
Global Eyes, Christmas edition
Today: Good news only.
More than 10,000 Russian troops returning to bases after drills near Ukraine. Want to know what this means? So do we. CG Vladislav Davidzon will be on France24 English at 9:00 pm Paris time to discuss it.
Here’s Princess Kate playing a Christmas carol. (Poshlost as the day is long, but it’s Christmas, so why not.)
Hopes grow that nuclear fusion is finally for real. The holy grail! If you missed it, here’s CG Owen Lewis explaining how this works.
NASA launches James Webb space telescope. CG Robert Zubrin is thrilled:
The pampered cats of the Hermitage. There have been cats in the Hermitage ever since the days of the Elizabeth Petrovna, and they even have their own PR flack:
A gallery of the winning photos from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year contest. Just stunning, all of them:
Rudolf Nureyev and Merle Park’s pas de deux from The Nutcracker:
From CG Toomas Hendrik Ilves:
From CG Monique Camarra:
Also from CG Monique Camarra:
From CG Vivek Kelkar:
And finally, Merry Christmas from my cat, CG Süleyman the Magnificent, who is hoping that today, at long last, we will celebrate with General Tso’s tuna.
All of us at the Cosmopolitan Globalist wish our readers around the world the merriest of Christmases.
Kisses from us all.
Happy Holidays all, from a godless schlub, hard at work on a holiday. May we have a year of good news, wise governance, and productive conversations with those we disagree with.
Thank you CG!
Merry Miscellaneous! By the way I tried your ricotta cookies on the family and they went down great, so thank you, these are likely to become an [insert holiday] tradition.