There's a belief that really, really wanting something is valuable. That our desire will help. "The other team wanted it more," a losing coach might say ( Read more... )

Ross and Kari are my most religious friends - it's a safe bet. Chatting last night they said that they had a hard time finding a church in their new area. "We church-shopped for almost two years before we found one that didn't make us uncomfortable," Kari said. Ross put it, "They're too religious for us," and laughed ( Read more... )

I think you can draw a chart of "Christmas Cheer vs. Exposure to Christmas Music" and it would look like this:


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Giftsmas keeps getting bigger every year, and I keep feeling guilty I haven't gotten gifts for, well, everyone. Why do we do this to holidays? We add and add. My first apartment, after college, we couldn't fit a tree in the one-room, much less afford it, so I hung a paper tree on the wall and taped the two or three ornaments I owned to it ( Read more... )

I've posted before about my evil delight that Christmas-celebrators want to further secularize their holiday by forcing people who don't mean it to say "Merry Christmas ( Read more... )

I think that Christmas should be moved to February 2nd (Candlemas) or at the very least to Orthodox Christmas or 12th Night in early January ( Read more... )

I dreampt about passover last night. In the dream, we were hosting our own Seder and I was a wreck trying to get the candles and the plates all set up. "Where's the bone? I need a frackin' bone ( Read more... )

Okay, one more political post ( Read more... )

When my older sister converted to Seventh Day Adventist, her speach adopted all kinds of christian-izing phrases, as though to announce her new status as Christian, and/or enforce her identification as member of a new group, which, like all groups, had its own jargon ( Read more... )

I am not jewish ( Read more... )