You really shouldn’t be reading this.  You haven’t even played with the nice new toys Santa brought you.

• Not so fast!  According to Ray Beckerman, the lawyer the RIAA loves to hate, the RIAA is still clogging the courts with file-sharing suits, and shows no signs of stopping;
• Matthew Yglesias gets paid to blog.  I don’t.  Matthew Yglesias has a huge audience.  I don’t (this week is an exception).  Matthew Yglesias can say almost anything he wants to say.  I can say anything I want to say.  I think I have the better deal;
• The astonishing Christmas light display of Leon and Ann Paschal (last year’s version – this year’s was bigger);
• Will the New York Times be the next major company to ask for a bailout? Perhaps if the paper reported news rather than burying it…
• In what must be a record for one day, Wal-Mart settles 63 wage-and-hour class actions;
• At what point will lawsuits challenging Barack Obama’s eligibility to serve as President be sanctioned as frivolous?  Here comes another one;
• Thoughts on the constitutionality of revoking the pardon to real estate fraud artist Isaac Toussie.  It depends on what the meaning of the word “issued” is.
• Is “mark of the beast” litigation the next big thing? Hilarious;
• Eartha Kitt, who had the sexiest voice on earth, has passed away. (Via folo).

Now go play with your toys.

Filed under: Barack Obama, Christmas and other holidays, New York Times, RIAA and file sharing, Wal-Mart