Nov 14, 2008 08:03
You know, I found the two-year-long presidential campaign utterly fascinating, but I'm already sick to death of the Christmas season. TV was already flooded with ads last night, including one where a guy complained that he'd just been carving pumpkins, it couldn't be Christmas season already, but wait, what a great deal on this wonderful gift item, I can't resist! Bah. What a tool! (The guy, not the gift item.)
Christmas: the season of desperate businesses, desperate shoppers, and desperately good cheer. President-Elect Obama should abolish Christmas and establish a new solstice holiday in which everybody just gets drunk and curses the darkness. Yes, every child too, although they can also have a lump of coal to burn in the long, cold nights.
solstice