This Week:

00:0030 Christmas Past

00:07:30 Skepchicks versus Anti-vaxers for New Years Eve http://skepchick.org/2011/12/times-squares-5000-sq-ft-anti-vaccine-party-extravaganza/

00:14:35 Christopher Hitchens tribute

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/16/arts/christopher-hitchens-is-dead-at-62-obituary.html?pagewanted=all

00:27:50 All deaths come in threes

00:36:37 Chrisopther Hitchens quotes

00:42:50 Holiday myths debunked

http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/22/health/holiday-health-myths/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

00:51:30 Lightning Round

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/21/9614175-perry-i-pray-a-lot-because-im-prone-to-make-a-lot-of-mistakes

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/20/9588670-boys-survival-from-flesh-eating-bacteria-deemed-a-miracle-by-his-family-and-the-pope

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2049948/Most-relaxing-song-UK-band-Boffins.html

01:07:45 Sense About Science

http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/a4e_postcard.html

(thank you, David Harcourt, for the link)

And some advice about driving, because...y'know...

And the dogs are far more glib than any of the hosts, but take their comments outside.

...in regards to the "African American Ice" comment, it's in reference to jokingly 'correcting' "racist language" by indiscriminantly replacing all uses of the word "black" with "African-American", "red" with "Native American", etc. :-)

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