Lots of people have emailed asking when I’m going to open the nominations for the Fiskie and Fallaci Awards (for most idiotic and most courageous figure of the year, respectively). The plan is to open nominations December 26 through 28. To make things easier for all of us, this time I’ll have a special form in which registered lizards can enter their suggested nominations. If your suggestion is already in the database it will tell you; this will prevent duplicates and make it easier to collate the list.

And with that, here’s an open thread for a sunny Sunday.