Pen-Elayne on the Web

A Seasonal Reminder

All this talk by religious-reich blowhards about how including citizens consumers who don't celebrate Christmas in polite greetings of the season is somehow dissing Babyjesus is, of course, a cultural diversion no different from Shark Attacks! and White Woman Missing! and Shoppers Trampled! and to pretty much the same purpose. Its amusement and/or shock value is designed, among other things, to take citizen viewer attention away from actual life and death issues. That said, I personally suspect that everything some of these pundits believe about Christmas came from the Rankin/Bass studios, bearing which in mind I therefore present my usual annual links. Nothing like the classics.