John J. Ray Merry Christmas, John! For those of you who don't know the story, Dr John J. Ray of Brisbane, Australia, was one of my first blogospheric benefactors, back in 2003. He offered to help me with my blog at a time when I hadn't the foggiest idea what I was doing. I didn't know him, but, after examining his blog and discovering that he was a conservative, I trusted him. That began what is now a six-year friendship. Thanks again, John. Keep up the good work plaguing, pestering, piquing, pummeling, prodding, pillaging, provoking, and puncturing the pride and pretensions of progressives.