When I was a kid growing up in Connecticut, I remember one friend in elementary school who’d leave a glass of punch for Santa. Here’s a video from Santacon showing some Santas deliver a punch in what looks like a drunken brawl. Perhaps they weren’t lifting a few — but they definitely THREW a few:
NOW we know why Santa’s nose is red…
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.