The spirit of the season

 Happy Day After Christmas -- Boxing Day, if you're from north of the border -- and the Blob thinks this is the perfect time to recognize those who understand the spirit of the season and the birth of the one who inspires it, and those who ... do not.

Anthony Leal from the IU basketball team, he gets it. The governor Texas, Greg Abbott (R-Colossal Dick), not so much.

What Anthony Leal did to honor Christmas was use his Name, Likeness and Image (NIL) money to pay off his older sister's student loan debt. All of it. Thousands of dollars. And so extra figgy pudding to Anthony for this act of goodwill toward women, and for understanding (implicitly or otherwise) that goodwill toward women and men was why Jesus was born all those centuries ago in the first place.

It seems Gov. Abbott -- who likes to profess his Christian faith without apparently living it -- never got the message.

What Colossal Dick did, see, is round up 100-some migrants who'd crossed the border illegally looking for relief from poverty or violence or exploitation, and exploit them some more. Put 'em on buses and shipped them literally to Vice-President Kamala Harris' doorstep in Washington, because, I don't know, he thought it would be cute or something.

He did this on Christmas Eve.

When it was 16 degrees in D.C.

And with at least some of the bewildered, desperate folks he sent off  not dressed for that kind of weather.

Merry Christmas.

And I suppose this is the part where we contemplate what Jesus would do in this situation, given that it's his birthday and he was born in inadequate circumstances himself because of the heartlessness of others. I have an idea, although it probably isn't particularly Christ-like.

I think Jesus would come back, kick the governor in the ass and ask him what part of "If you do this to the least of these, you do it unto me" he didn't understand.

But enough about cruelty and heartlessness and juvenile political stunts. I prefer to dwell on Anthony Leal and his sister, and the true spirit of the season.

Here's the video of Lauren Leal opening her gift from Anthony. Bring tissues.