Sorry I post so infrequently. This is the first semester I have ever tried to balance a job and school, so other activities like this blog get pushed to the side. I’m still in the midst of exams, but expect a bunch of updates later this month.

Now to address an issue that has been bothering me for a while. It is so obvious to me that the whole furor over a supposedly anti-Christmas agenda is just a streitpunkt the talking heads are exploiting to get people riled up. Why do I say that? Well the phrase “happy holidays” has been around for ages. Last year Peanuts (which as you may know is running “rerun” strips under the title Classic Peanuts) ran a strip, originally published in 1969, in which one of the characters said that very phrase. In 1969. This from Charles Schultz whose Christian faith was obviously an important part of his life. I’m sure others who have lived for much longer than I have can attest to “happy holidays” not being a recent invention. Heck, I can remember it being used when I was in elementary school, so it’s got to be at least a decade old.

So here’s my point: If “happy holidays” has indeed been around as long as I contend it has, why are people just now getting worked up about it? That’s right, it’s our good friends at the liberal, Jew-run media who are trying to save Christmas from the liberals and non-Christians who are trying to get rid of it. I remember watching Bill O’Reilly last year bemoaning some city’s parade which had recently been changed from a “Christmas” parade to a “Holiday” parade. Evidently other media outlets took the hint. This year I hear so much about it that I just may avoid watching television at all, until the ball drops.