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Hump Day Quick Fix 6 (12/8/04)

Quick review of an elementary school Christmas songfest at Coeur d'Alene High Tuesday night: Song selection that included penguins, snowflakes and Frosty the Snowman but left out mention of the Christ Child: frightful; singing and kids: delightful. The director did include "Silent Night," which doesn't mention You-Know-Who by name. Bottom line? Score another one for the evil forces of Political Correctness.

1. Political 'Toon Fix: Chuck Asay (UN oil-for-food scandal), Henry Payne (Steroid use), and Guy Gilchrist (Your Angel Speaks).

2. Humor Fix: Jay D. Dyson provides another of his Sacred Cow Burgers here.

3. My Way Fix: This Day in History here, This Day in Music here, Today's Birthdays here, and Positive Quote here.

4. Top of the News Fix: Charges expected for 5 Pacers, 5 fans here, No women in running to replace Rather? here, Senate expected to pass 9/11 bill today here, Ecoterrorists burn 41 homes in Maryland here, and Bush acknowledges toll war taking on military here.

5. Abstinence-Only Fix: LifeNews.com finds holes you could drive a truck through in California Demo Henry Waxman's much-ballyhooed anti-abstinence report here.

6. Opinion Fix: Andrew Sullivan/New Republic (A case for Iraq optimism), Kathleen Parker/Orlando Sentinel (Bush hardly a zealot), Zev Chafets/NY Daily News (Racist slap at Clarence Thomas), George Will/Houston Chronicle (Baseball needs more character), and Tom Foley & Newt Gingrich/Washington Times (Protecting the Homeland).

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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.