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Reporting from the front lines

By pharyngula on December 22, 2006.

Every war needs its bold reporters, sharing the news from the front lines…the War on Christmas has Mike Argento.

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The best comment I've read this year is on Argento's post:

Ahh yes...the holidays! The time of year for fellowship, caring, giving, and a general sense of well-being for all, regardless of race, religion, sex, or creed...in the movies, that is.
For the rest of us, it's clubbing people in the store lines on Black Friday and screeching at hapless clerks because we just HAD to get to Best Buy at 2am. Fighting over the best tree at Ollies. Pretending not to notice the homeless people collecting money on the street corners. Fighting with relatives over insignificant dinner details. And most of all, it's all about the desperate search to find something, anything, TO BE OFFENDED BY! GET OVER IT!!

I've been reading Argento's stuff since his coverage of Dover. He's awesome.

Teacher gives tough lesson on Santa

A SCHOOL in England has been forced to apologise after a teacher told her nine and 10-year-old students that Santa wasn't real.
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Nine and ten year olds? I think they should be over that phase by now.

Yeah, they know by nine--or earlier. My daughter fessed up today that she kept pretending to believe in Santa Claus for awhile because it gave ME such a kick to keep the charade going.

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