One more cup of eggnog ‘fore I go

I ain’t gonna work in Santa’s shop no more: Bob Dylan confirmed on his Web site that he’s recorded a Christmas album to benefit a national charity.

Among the songs on the album are “Quinn the Red-Nosed Eskimo,” “Can You Please Crawl Down My Chimney” and “Layaway, Lady, Layaway.”

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Fourth time’s a charm: Boeing has acknowledged that because of all the reworked parts on the first three 787s, it will not be able to sell those planes to customers.

Adding insult to injury is the fact that Boeing had its eye on a Toyota Camry and just missed the Cash for Clunkers deadline.

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Don’t quit your day job: Rex Rammell, an elk rancher who is running for governor in Idaho, says he sees no reason to apologize for a joke he made during a Republican rally in which he said he intended to buy license tags to hunt President Barack Obama.

OK. We didn’t laugh when we heard it either, but sometimes it’s all in the delivery of the joke. We’re extending an invitation to Mr. Rammell to tell the joke again, but this time we’d like him to tell it for a small audience of Secret Service agents. Those guys love a good laugh.

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