bad enuff, we as a society hafta endure a rapidly and constantly expanding sacred holiday gift-buying season (not so long ago, no respectable enterprise woulda crassed the line by transforming its facility into a red-green-and-tinseled gwb's smirk vision of yuletide one minute before 12:00:01 the day after thanksgiving; this year, i'd not be surprised to find santa, reindeer and elf suits being stealthed in as halloween costumes) without being subjected to a buncha pre-december pissing, moaning, unrestrained rumor mongering and outraged wailing about the de-christmasization of the nation. 

i dunno exactly when this year's 'they've damn near banned xmas everywhere when i wasnt looking' crusade began, but over the past two days, i've seen a pair of  impassioned, if not terribly well-conceived condemnations of those foolish enuff to put themselves on front street by suggesting distribution of the holy candycane--a symbol that dates back to the time when jesus' own shepherd's crook was transformed into a delicious confection on that cold night in bethlehem into which he was born--by an 'ends excuse means'  holy witness in a public school classroom seems unlikely to be legal, sensible or even the christian thing to do.   

yall would accrue a great deal more credibility if you were equally as protective (or even sorta close) of the celebration of the most important day on the christian calendar--the resurection--as you are about the whole toybag fulla pagan winter solstice traditions combined with fanciful inanities, the most ancient of which possibly dates  alllllllll the way back to the last golden era (like 1850 years after christ beamed himself up.)

either i missed the big easter fatwa against the heathens who eternally labor day-in, day-out trying to roll the stone back before jesus can fully triumph over death, or yall are bettin the farm (not to mention puttin all your coal in one stocking) hoping nobody else will notice your lack of concern about easter and realize it  exposes the deliberate false witness you bear with your hysterical claims about the purported attack on xmas.