Happy Christmas
You’ll burn your feet off, kid: Federal investigators have issued a safety warning regarding shipments of hoverboards, skateboard-like devices powered by lithium batteries. Fires, caused by the batteries, have been reported (Page A11).
Between exploding hoverboards and the invasion of drones under Christmas trees this morning, that Red Ryder carbine-action, two-hundred shot, range-model air rifle sounds pretty safe right now.
Channel-sledding the vast cultural wasteland: CBS is showing “The Andy Griffith Show Christmas Special,” a couple of colorized episodes of the classic TV series (The Clicker, Page D6).
Not that you’ll be able to tell, what with that mound of crumpled-up wrapping paper blocking the TV.
Don’t know much about history: On this day in 1818, “Silent Night (Stille Nacht)” was publicly performed for the first time during at a church in Austria (Today in History, Page D6).
Against the instincts of the parish priest, the church’s music director talked the priest into having them play the song with lead, rhythm and bass guitars, a drum set and a horn section with the lyrics displayed on an overhead screen.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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