Um, No. Frak, No.

The Ornery Bastard tagged me with a Christmas meme. That particular branch dies with me, but if you feel like picking it up and passing it along, knock yourself out.

Most of the answers are "not applicable" for me. I'm Jewish. Sure, I give gifts and receive them for Christmas, so fucking what. But no tree, no ornaments, no wreaths. Still, Santa is way cooler than spinning some stupid dreidel.




Look, I don't get pissed off over Christmas. First off, it's nothing more than a bastardized version of Saturnalia. Get the day off, give gifts, eat, drink and be merry. That's basically Saturnalia. If you want to throw the Baby Jesus and the three wise guys, Larry, Moe and Curly, into the mix in order to warp Saturnalia into a pseudo-Christian holiday, that's fine by me. Ever since the demise of the Puritans, the observance of Christmas has been secularized past the point of no return.

So if you want to have a creche on the lawn of the Town Hall, knock yourself out. I don't particularly take it as an official endorsement of Christmas any more than that it already is by being a government holiday (you might have noticed that the Post Office is open on Yom Kippur). If you want to have a Christmas pageant in the schools and have the sixth-grade class slut play the role of Mary, go to it.

Have fun.