December 25, 2006
Ace
. . . has a beautiful
Christmas post up, featuring three different clips from
A Charlie Brown Christmas.
It's possible that a couple of these excerpts were edited just a little. Possible.
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For the Longest Time Today,
I just felt overwhelmed. I even called my mother and told her to drop by later than we'd said—I wanted to see if a nap would help. It did, a little.
God bless my mother: she's not one of those moms. I don't come from a really domestic line, praise the Lord and pass the convenience foods.
Mom came over and told me she wanted to open presents soon, and then maybe we ought to go out for dinner. She even offered to take the turkey home with her, and roast it herself tomorrow!
more...
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Well, It Was Warm Today.
Though not quite
this warm. I didn't take a picture; my hair's dirty.
Attila the Hub's close friend called from Ohio; he used to live nearby in the San Fernando Valley.
"How are you doin', Honey?" he asked me.
"Pretty good," I told him. "It feels like Christmas."
"Like Christmas? What is it there?—seventy degrees?"
"That's just about exactly right," I told him. "We have the sliders open. Why?"
"It's forty here," he explains. "And we're grateful it's that warm."
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December 23, 2006
Alexandra
. . . over at All Things Beautiful
asks if things have changed since last year, when she wrote about "the war on Christmas."
I think it's a real phenomenon, but I believe it peaked last year and has eased up slightly since then.
Thoughts?
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I think it has eased up, but it didn't happen by itself. Lots of people working behind the scenes to inform schools and businesses what their real limitations are under the law. One very active group, based in Chicago, is affiliated with the ACLU. Before the Libs out there celebrate, they are countering actions of other ACLU lawyers who have been giving "free" advice to school districts telling them they must avoid any and all Christian references in any school event. Even caroling. That is simply not true. Schools, with their politically-connected lawyers who just happen to be somebody's brother-in-law who went to night school and graduated in the bottom 5% of their class, used to go along with what was said for fear of costly lawsuits. Now they have a second opinion to go by and representation, if they need it.
Businesses are responding to customer wishes to hear "Merry Christmas" at least some of the time, and maybe even see the words on a sign or two. It's simply good business.
Contrary to what you may have heard, Church leaders didn't pick this time of year to usurp pagan festivities. That is a very old and unfounded accusation--by lapsed Christians. In the very early Church, the birth of Jesus was ignored because His Death and Resurrection of Jesus was our reason for being. About the 4th Century, scholars tried to determine when Jesus might have been born and they used theories of Jewish theologians that held that great prophets always die on the day of birth, or on the day they were conceived. They had enough data to calculate the date of Good Friday, because it is linked to a known event-Passover. The year was figured out as well, from available data. They chose to go with 36 weeks after that date (believing March 25th, the date of Good Friday as his conception), to arrive at what is now December 25th, because of other documents that excluded Springtime from consideration. In the 4th Century AD, there were no competing celebrations in Rome (where they worked), no matter how many times you have been told otherwise, that needed "countering." Why would celebrating the Winter Soltice preclude celebrating Christmas anyway, or vice versa. The shepherds in the field argument would be weather dependent, wouldn't it? Or would a shepherd pass up free meals for his sheep if the weather was accommodating? Think they might be there this year? Anyway it's as good a date as any, and it leaves enought time to present the life of Christ in the Gospels of the weekly masses before we begin the Passion and Death sequence.
Posted by: Darrell at December 23, 2006 10:03 PM (GnnzF)
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In the song, "Walking in a Winter Wonderland," the pc folks have changed the lyric "In the meadow we can build a snowman...and pretend that he is Parson Brown" to "and pretend that he's a circus clown." Sickening. Clowns!
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December 22, 2006
Overheard, 2
"Look, I don't mean to be a cunt, but . . . . Wait . . ."
"What?"
"It's just that I've got a bad case of Christmas stress, and I do."
"Do what?"
"Do mean to be a cunt."
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I think it's safe to assume this is so in every case. Same with pricks.
Algonquin Round Table 2006
Posted by: Darrell at December 22, 2006 09:39 PM (jdNbM)
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I like to think of myself as a modern-day Dorothy Parker . . . without the wit, of course.
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December 19, 2006
Okay. I Hate to Admit It.
But—my own feelings about Santa-storytelling to one's kids notwithstanding—this is pretty
cute.
Via Snark Patrol, who points out that NORAD's Santa-tracking enterprise began with a proofreading error.
Me? I may be a cynic, but I'll be looking for those Santa-Cams on New Year's Eve.
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