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Man goddamn, it's come and gone again, hasn't it? Those freaking holidays seem to take fifty years to get here and then they're gone in five seconds. And we've only done one miracle ride!* Anyway, as some of you already know, we have posted our second annual Christmas podcast, THIS IS BIG GREEN: Holidaze 2012 , a nearly 100-minute extravaganza that dwarfs even the titanic pointlessness of last year's effort and renders anew the promise of fractured Christmases to come. Many of you know that I am not given to wild exaggeration, but I have to say that THIS holiday special is THE MOST AMAZING HOLIDAY SPECIAL since the BIRTH of THE JESUS. Let me emphasize that I have to say that because, well, our sponsor, Hegemonic Records and Worm Farm, Inc., has demanded a higher number of downloads on this episode. And when they don't get what they want, they get something else ... which is ugly. So... gun to my head, I most certainly would. All right - no lie, there is a l...

Fiscal cliff approaching, and no action. One would hope that the notion of its being a financial catastrophe on the order of 2007-8 has been greatly exaggerated, but I would not recommend taking a chance when people are dependent on unemployment benefits and other programs that will come under the knife of sequestration. Boehner and his conference truly are ridiculous. When I think of the extent to which they can get what they want out of this president, I have to think that they are completely out of their collective tree. When all they have to do is accept slightly higher marginal taxes on rich people, you would think this would be a no-brainer for them. (Indeed, this Congress gives a whole new meaning to the term no-brainer.) But I guess they're willing to go to the mat for millionaires. Otherwise, why would they not simply extend tax cuts to the bottom 98% of taxpayers now , today, then negotiate the rest later? Because we are one of their bargaining chips. I want to make ce...

This Is Big Green: Holidaze (December) 2012 Big Green marks the pagan holiday known as Christmas with a full-blown installment of Ned the talking horse, three new Big Green songs, and more. Dig it. This is Big Green - Holidaze 2012. Features: 1) Ned Trek V, starring Mr. Ned, Romney's Dancing Horse; 2) Skit: Charlie in the Box and the first semi-automatic Christmas; 3) Put the phone down: Holidays and the recently departed remembered; 4) Song: Merry Christmas, Children, by Big Green; 5) Song: Father Christmas, by Big Green; 6) Song: Martha's Christmas, by Big Green; 7) Song: Christmas Spirit, by Big Green; 8 ) Matt's encounter with an invasive species; 9) Song: Head Cheese Log, by Big Green; 10) We collapse in festive exhaustion Go To Download Page >