Every Yuletide Carol Needs a Troll

Dropping a turd in your holiday punchbowl, PopSmarts is back to kick it old-school — 1834-style in fact, as we take a look at the historical legislation that prompted the writing of A Christmas Carol, and how the assumptions behind those laws are still relevant in our own more-enlightened time.

It's a long read, but if you retain only a single line of it, let it be this one:

The stone truth is that people on government assistance earn every goddam penny.

Come for the history lesson; stay for the outrage!