Fresh from the "Why is this news" department.
Wal-Mart puts the Christ back in Christmas. At least, that seems to be how the news is spinning this otherwise trivial decision.
I don't know if it's that my own peculiar brand of atheism has gotten less militant in my old age, or if this is just one of those issues that falls through the cracks when I'm picking my battles. But I really can't make myself care what the idiot at the retail counter is saying to me at any time of year, December is no different. I've never felt particularly oppressed by people wishing me a Merry Christmas. And lets face it, to over three quarters of Americans, Christmas is the name of the holiday.
I'll grant that there are some disquieting elements to the article (for example, the fact that the boycott was apparently successful), but really, can we just go back to calling this a non-issue? Please?
On the elections:
One would think I'd be thrilled that the Democrats gained control of both houses of congress, and the majority of the state governorship. If one thought that, one would be wrong.
I am happy that the Republicans lost congress, but I don't like that I have to be that negative in order to find something positive. I can't view this election as the American people affirmatively approving a Democratic agenda because to my knowledge, there is no Democratic agenda to approve, and I don't think they'll find one within the next two years. All this election showed was that the American people prefer the nothing the Democrats were offering to the crap we've been putting up with for the last few years.
My guess: It's not that I think the Democrats will do anything wrong per se, it's that I don't think they'll do anything. It won't be long before the people are bored with Democratic control, and the Republicans will be back in 2008.
Last thing, the Pat Green album "Cannonball" is the first CD that's come out in years that I've liked enough to buy. That makes it blog-worthy as far as I'm concerned.
I don't know if it's that my own peculiar brand of atheism has gotten less militant in my old age, or if this is just one of those issues that falls through the cracks when I'm picking my battles. But I really can't make myself care what the idiot at the retail counter is saying to me at any time of year, December is no different. I've never felt particularly oppressed by people wishing me a Merry Christmas. And lets face it, to over three quarters of Americans, Christmas is the name of the holiday.
I'll grant that there are some disquieting elements to the article (for example, the fact that the boycott was apparently successful), but really, can we just go back to calling this a non-issue? Please?
On the elections:
One would think I'd be thrilled that the Democrats gained control of both houses of congress, and the majority of the state governorship. If one thought that, one would be wrong.
I am happy that the Republicans lost congress, but I don't like that I have to be that negative in order to find something positive. I can't view this election as the American people affirmatively approving a Democratic agenda because to my knowledge, there is no Democratic agenda to approve, and I don't think they'll find one within the next two years. All this election showed was that the American people prefer the nothing the Democrats were offering to the crap we've been putting up with for the last few years.
My guess: It's not that I think the Democrats will do anything wrong per se, it's that I don't think they'll do anything. It won't be long before the people are bored with Democratic control, and the Republicans will be back in 2008.
Last thing, the Pat Green album "Cannonball" is the first CD that's come out in years that I've liked enough to buy. That makes it blog-worthy as far as I'm concerned.