The morning after

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Secret Santa swings by for photo-op at Reading's poverty row

A businessman fellow who goes by Secret Santa visited Reading yesterday to hand out good cheer in the form of $100 bills to the city's starving, out-of-work citizens. Secret Santa's visit was so clandestine that the morning newspaper was only able to capture and post five brilliantly composed photos of Secret Santa, mingling about in red cap and sweatshirt, dispensing largess to the luckless local folks living in misery.

Secret Santa visited such as magnets for the impoverished as the Salvation Army, the BARTA bus terminal,  the Naber-Hood Laundromat at Eighth and Chestnut streets, the Queen City Diner, a Goodwill Retail Store, and the Wine and Spirits Shoppe on Penn Street.

Mitt Romney: "Look, I have a $100 bill, too. But you can't have it."While those who received a crisp C-note left feeling blessed with holiday cheer, reaction by the GOP field was swift and harsh:

Mitt Romney: "Giving people on the street a hundred dollars does nothing to create jobs. Secret Santa should give the money to the people who run the Nabor-Hood Laundromat and the Queen city. That will put people back to work."

Newt Gingrich: "Handing out $100 bills to strangers is socialism, plain and simple."

Rick Perry: "How are people going to feel if they get $100 now and then wake up on December 29 to find less under the Christmas tree?"

Michele Bachmann: "Maybe if Obama repealed the regulations on sleigh emissions, Secret Santa wouldn't move his workshops to the North Pole."

Rick Santorum: "This is only a slippery slope to man-on-reindeer sex."

Christmas weekend open thread

Be, nice, not naughty.

(More oddball Christmas pictures here, courtesy of Magnum.)

Great holiday ads through the ages

Give him (who?) UNDERWEAR! Then watch him stalk your child.

More hilarity here, courtesy of Craacked.