The Christmas season is a wonderful time of year.

Here at Pave we seek to honor the spirit of Christmas. Generosity and fellowship are our watchwords.

We take this opportunity to put aside the site's usual business of mocking and laughing at and taunting and chastising and laughing again at and rebuking and condemning and laughing thrice again at the French and turn instead to welcoming friends old and new. Pave extends its ample seasonal bonhommie to all.

Pave wants everyone to have a Coalition Christmas! Other coalition gift suggestions can be found here. (Hat tip: Judith Weiss)

And remember buying American is part of any great Coalition Christmas. So please visit our all-American friends over at Wishing Fish for unusual and stylish gifts.

Of course there are clunkers nobody wants in their Christmas stocking. Here's a list of other things to avoid.

Dear Santa,
Wishing Fish retro travel totes, in red, please.
Packed with Belgian chocolates...

Santa notes with interest all Pave correspondents' Christmas wishes.

The Management

Santa Baby,
Slip a Tingler under the tree for me,
I've been an awfully good girl,
Santa Baby,
And hurry down the chimney tonight!

E-gads! I had a CZ motorcycle when I was younger...and I noticed looking at some of the “good” gifts that CZ also makes firearms! Not that I would ever think of purchasing a firearm…

Hold the line on the wine folks….my local liquor store is practically giving the stuff away, and Val-Tex notified me a store in her area is selling bottles of the stuff for pennies on the dollar!

I’m not really sure if Santa will be visiting me this year.

my local liquor store is practically giving the stuff away

I'm going to be naughty.