“I like to see people reunited. I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can’t fell fast enough, the ears that aren’t big enough, the eyes that can’t take in all the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing one.” -Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

We here at the Round-Up hope you have this kind of happiness today (and every day).

Gawker read Ta-Nehisi Coates tweets, and you should too.

Marmel notices nothing, Nothing, NOTHING, literally not a peep from the GOP.

Hackwhackers remembers the worst op-ed in all of recorded history.

Brains and Eggs presents… Merry Xmas from Ayn Rand!

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