The big run-up to Christmas starts tomorrow with my annual “Holiday Ode to St. Phil”. I need to check out all the links to see if they still work, so give me a day, OK? In the meantime:

Good news on the Saturn front – the transmission issue has something to do with the engine to tranny solenoid (?) and should only cost $400 max to fix. If that’s true and the repair is successful, we’d be back to having two functioning cars since August 22, 2014. Can you believe it?

Wonder if this comment will get Donald Trump the Jewish vote. But seriously folks, of course, the mainstream media and feminists everywhere will be totally unhinged over this, but if they haven’t gotten the fact that The Donald is an alpha male yet, they never will. And you can tell from the video Trump’s just playing off the crowd like some borscht-belt comedian. He’s enjoying himself, and I guess that kind of thing isn’t allowed in politics anymore.

…but it would be a mistake to think Trump’s comment was anything off-the-cuff and careless – Trump is clearly baiting Hillary into a male vs. female battle that he feels she cannot win. First of all, for someone who plays the gender card as much as Hillary does, there’s nothing much feminine about her. She wants everyone to believe she’s a warm, caring grandmother, but she’s a cold, calculating, disingenuous, lying b**** – and the fact is most people know it. Rush Limbaugh is right when he says that Hillary Clinton reminds every guy of his ex-wife, and Trump is gonna play that angle up to a “T”. If Hillary does indeed get the Democratic nomination she has no clue what she’s in for.

It’s stories like this that makes fans love Phil Mickelson so much.

A classy move by the Red Sox organization. Sure, Wade Boggs had his foibles but between his hitting and defense he was the best third baseman the Red Sox ever had (sorry Butch Hobson, Joe Foy, and Frank Malzone!).

Heard the Beach Boys’ Mike Love’s Christmas offering for the season, and it’s OK though not really much of an improvement over the Beach Boys 1977 version. Sure, his vocal performance seems more spirited (although you can hear the Autotune especially during the final verse) as is the overall production, but the background vocals lack the quality of the Beach Boys. Still, it’s worth a solid B.