Nick Turse Offers the Seasonal Shopping List from Hell

All-American Christmas By Nick ("Tongue Firmly in Cheek") Turse It's that time of year again. A time for family and friends to gather. A sacred time. A time to look back and reflect on what really matters most. And, honestly, what matters more than Tomdispatch's third annual holiday list of the season's best gifts? Back in 2003, there were those "Hot as Depleted Uranium Toys for a New Imperial Age"; in 2004, we gave you the inside scoop on how to "Make It a Merry Military-Corporate Christmas." This year, it's all about timeless American values, like militarism, jingoism, and barbarism. So if you've been wringing your hands, worried that you'll never find that last minute holiday gift for the special someone on your list, today is your lucky day! The Spirit of the Season Does it seem like every year you have more and more people to buy presents for? Well, here's a gift idea that wants to be part of the solution, not the problem: the "America Is Full" T-shirt. Now, when the recipient of your gift heads out, people will know exactly what s/he thinks about those tired, poor, and huddled masses yearning to breathe free. And if there was any shred of doubt, the reverse side reads: "The Borders… It's Closing Time." Click here to read more of this dispatch: