Scruggs Nation, Day 24: Christmas vacation

It has been quite a month of incessant Scruggsblogging. Believe it or not, before the indictment I planned December as a period where I could minimize blogging and work on other things such as my next Appleman's Critical Issues article on Fifth Circuit Katrina decisions and a new chapter in the Appleman's treatise on hurricane coverage law. As I write this, I am still trying to get back home to Portland so I can observe Christmas with my family, so this will likely be my last post for a few days. A few items, holiday-related and otherwise: She will never be crowned by the aristocracy and she has never been considered chic, but no female singer has ever sold a song like Karen Carpenter. Check out her version of Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. Never mind the grainy image, the do