Okay… I know I’m a little old for this… and I know I’ve been a little (a lot) Scrooge-ly this year… but I’ve been terribly amused by this website this year.  There have always been news stories tracking Santa on satellite… I’ve even flown on Christmas Eve when the pilots make comments about having spotted the fat man himself.  But now, it seems that Norad has put the tracking capability online.  As I type, he is in Porto Amboin, Angola.  There’s even a phone number you can call if you want your kids to be able to talk to an honest-to-goodness government employee who has no plans on Christmas Eve but to track a Saint in a sleigh and tell your kid about it.

Of course, there are also all these amusing articles about the physics of Santa.  This one seems to forgive the improbability of the whole thing in favor of the "well, he’s a saint" explanation, while this one suggests that he would probably be vaporized.

Either way… it really amuses me how much time science and military and government people spend on Santa.  I’d say they have better things to do… but I think that they prove pretty regularly that they don’t… so go ahead gang! 

From our little piece of The Globe to yours… Happy Festivus (yesterday… for the rest of us) and Merry Christmas (tomorrow).

By the way… now he’s in Chardaia, Algeria.