The New York Post is asking readers to vote on its best front page headline of the decade. Voting closes at Noon ET today, but even if you don’t want to vote there are some brilliantly-written classics that you may recall.

‘Tis the season for hand sanitizer, Kleenex and apparently, contradictory advice on how to handle a cold or the flu. With swine flu paranoia at a fever pitch, we’ve been inundated with advice from public health experts on how to handle illness this winter. And it has all sounded similar: take it easy and get plenty of rest. But on my subway ride home this morning and I noticed a series of ads for Halls cough drops that veered off the familiar track.

I got a tweet on Christmas Day from @eric_right_now who had been watching the “Rudolph” Christmas special. He noted the similarity between me and misfit elf Hermey.

Only about two people in our extended family actually like eating Brussels sprouts. Yet, faithfully, my mother and grandmother have prepared the vegetable every Christmas for as long as I can remember.

We?re on a modified schedule this week for Christmas. There will be no Pat?s Picks or e-mail to subscribers on December 24 and 25.