Santa's NSA adventure

Have you heard about this “Elf on the Shelf” character? Perhaps I should say Elves on the Shelves. There are definitely more than one.

I hadn’t until this year.

Apparently elves appear on east coast shelves more than out here in the west (or in the south for that matter). Probably a denser population thing. Can’t overtax Santa’s attitude meter can we?

The deal is that elves, which appear to be figures made of ceramic, wood or cloth during the daylight hours, keep an eye on the children of the house and report back to Santa during the night.

When he is done rat-finking on your children’s good/b...