Fun With Matches

This week's Upsider, attacking the smoking ban as promised.

For more fun, caption the picture at right.

It is amazing to me that something so adored for an entire month is simply chucked off the ship come Dec. 26. We will have some fun with it again in the spring, when we torch it.

Has anyone ever beheld that little ceremony? I always end up thinking, "And that's just from one tree. Imagine a whole forest."