Debatable: What if they held a Democratic presidential candidate debate on the Saturday night before Christmas? Would it make a noise? If it did, would anybody hear it?

The debate opened with Bernie Sanders having to apologize for his staff looking at Clinton’s campaign information on the Democratic National Committee website. It happened because of a programming glitch and what’s important is that both Clinton and Sanders were quick to put it behind them. Sanders fired one of his staffers.

Clinton, Sanders, and Martin O’Malley debated ways to control guns, as well as taxes, national security and the Middle East. At times they were all running against Republican Donald Trump, and while they debated policy, they were in general agreement that any one of them would be a better president than any of the Republicans running.

The Democrats talked about some things the Republicans just won’t consider; regulating the sale of assault weapons and raising taxes on wealthier Americans.

ABC News anchor David Muir and correspondent Martha Raddatz frequently lost control of the candidates, who ran a livelier debate than the moderators.

Clinton has been accused of being too soft on Wall Street. But she won a big moment when Muir asked the “gotcha” question, “Should corporate America love Hillary Clinton?” And she replied to great laughter, “Everybody should!”

The grumpy Sanders has talked about coming down on Wall Street and breaking up big financial institutions. So he took the moment back from Clinton posing his own question, “Will corporate America love a President Sanders?” and answering, “No, I think they won’t.”

Martin O’Malley was there as well.

Permawar: Iraq has called for an investigation and prosecution of whoever is responsible for a US air strike that killed nine Iraqi soldiers Friday, but Defense Secy. Ash Carter says the incident was a mistake for which both US and Iraqi forces were responsible. “These kind of things can happen when you are fighting side by side as we are, on a dynamic battlefield,” Carter told reporters aboard an assault ship deployed in Persian Gulf.

The attack was carried out by an American B1 bomber that dropped several bombs in support of Iraqi troops fighting Islamic State forces in Fallujah. One of the bombs hit the Iraqis.

The Obit Page: Kurt Masur, the former music director of the New York Philharmonic who in the 1990s tuned out internal disharmony and restored the orchestra to one of the world’s greatest, died in Greenwich Conn. at age 88. Classical music snobs and critics turned up their noses when the East German director was chosen to succeed Zubin Mehta. Masur was not the first choice, but they couldn’t get anyone else because the orchestra was so mediocre. Critics debated his style, but he turned out to be great for the orchestra he directed from 1991 to 2002.

Culinary Appropriation: Political correctness has appeared to have spread to the sushi bar at Oberlin College, where some of the students are complaining that the international dishes are incorrectly prepared and therefore a “cultural appropriation.”

One student of Vietnamese heritage complained that they used the wrong bun on the Banh Mi sandwich. Another spoke to the college paper about the sushi bar saying, “When you’re cooking a country’s dish for other people, including ones who have never tried the original dish before, you’re also representing the meaning of the dish as well as its culture. So if people not from that heritage take food, modify it and serve it as ‘authentic,’ it is appropriative.”

So …. uhh … We can’t put ketchup on the sushi?

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