Happy boxing day! Today is traditionally called Boxing Day, and it has nothing to do with the Sweet Science so much as with the fact that the British upper class would box up their old things the day after Christmas to make room for their new stuff and would donate this to the poor.

Of course, it also has led to a tradition of boxing matches on the day after Christmas and even on Christmas itself. (I stayed home with my wife this year, eating lamb chops and drinking a fine Bordeaux as we watched the prize fights last night.) Nothing says Peace on Earth like an exhibition of two men beating the tar out of each-other!

Anyway, in addition to this being Boxing Day it's also the Feast of Stephen, the Proto-martyr. Stephen, you may remember, was an early day Christian who had the unfortunate luck of running into a mob led by Saul of Tarsis, who took everyone's coats while they stoned him. (And wehn I say stoned I mean threw rocks at him until he was dead, not gave him too much spiked eggnog.) So this is an important day in the Christmas holiday season.

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