Bright Makes Right

one year at the Richards house                                                                              AP/Alan Porritt

There's no accounting for taste and there's no limit to humans' competitive excesses. That said, agreed on, and out of the way, we can now sit back and enjoy this story about a modern-age, holiday-themed Hatfield-vs.-McCoy-type rivalry between the Richards family of Canberra, Australia, and the Gay family of LaGrangeville, New York. Never again will you complain about the bother of stripping your tree of its lights after the holidays! (story, video): http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/the-intense-competition-to-be-the-worlds-most-decorated-house/383858/#disqus_thread