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Tuesday December 24, 2013 Christmas Eve Day, according to Metro Transit

***Sporty's Bar serves a free Christmas Eve dinner.

Sporty's calls itself "The Original Dive Bar." Not nearly in the original meaning; it's not "A place of low resort" but a respectable college-area bar. The family that runs it are nice people.

Across the street, I dropped off several books at the Little Free Library and took one out.

***Sfnal idea: fiction for the unborn. Sparked by finding out there are preteen romances.

***From politicalwire.com:

FBI files show that between 1947 and 1956, the movie It's a Wonderful Life was listed as "under the suspicion of being a vehicle of Communist propaganda."

***Via news.google.com:

McDonald's Employee Website Warns Workers About the Health Risks from ...
ABC News Written by Susanna Kim

McDonald's employees, who often take their meals at the restaurants they work in, ought to stay away from eating too much fast food, the company's McResource website warns.

[Prediction: This will be widely mentioned on left-of-center websites, but not on right-of-center websites.]