Point To Ponder

I’m not sure how old I was, but many, many years ago, I can remember sitting in our living room watching the local news on television with my parents when the weatherman announced to everyone that their radar had picked up a strange object over the Atlantic Ocean.

Now, these were the days of really bad graphics, but they showed us a radar screen with a small black silhouette of Santa in his sleigh being pulled by reindeer. I mean, it was obvious what it was, but the weatherman kept saying, “We’re not sure exactly what this is, but we here at the news felt it was important to inform y...