This may be the fact of the month from today's Plain Dealer: "One water-pipe smoking session can be the equivalent of 100 cigarettes." Maybe that's why people loves their hookah.

Boy, it seems for a state with a no-smoking ban there sure are lots of places to light up. Like that free ad for the Tick Tock Tavern the other day.

And you can't smoke in Hawaii anymore. But they have better weather.

On the sixth day of Christmas, it's Sufjan. And why not.

Sufjan Stevens-"Put the Lights on the Tree"



Meal of Links

Can you ever order a jumbo Coke at the theater ever again. This makes it sound oh, so nasty to drink one.

John Mayer wins a "Dundie".

Breasts are getting bigger in the Netherlands. "What kind of a name is Todd Gack anyway?" "I think it's Dutch."

Exercise Yard

The first round Miranda KO of Gibbs:



Carmelo Anthony gets a 15-game suspension. My fantasy team on DEFCON 2.

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24 Across: Half an English pop band (5 letters) Answer: Duran