Friday, Sep. 29

This morning, while taking the shuttle bus in to work, an advertisement on the radio urged listeners to get something or other taken care of before Christmas. I groaned to my co-workers exclaiming "it's not even Halloween yet... forget Thanksgiving!" Really, there ought to be a law banning Christmas decorations and advertising before Thanksgiving. In a similar vein, I think there ought to be a law preventing Fox News from hyping the "Liberal War on Christmas"® before Thanksgiving, too. That would have prevented yesterday's Grapevine segment:

A Christmas Education

If public school teachers want to tell their students about the religious history of Christmas, it's OK with U.S. Education Secretary Margaret Spellings.

The secretary responded to an e-mail from a teacher in Utah who was unsure about what she can say and what kinds of decorations she can use. Spellings wrote back that schools and teachers are free to celebrate the secular aspects of Christmas and may also teach about the religion and history behind the holiday.

No, it's not a story about a local ACLU chapter firebombing a Christmas pageant and shipping survivors off to atheist re-education camps, but it is a gentle reminder to good, honest, God fearing Christians that this administration is on their side.

Vote Republican in these next elections, folks, or there might not be a Christmas to celebrate this year!