War on Christmas, already

Oy, what a cringeworthy production. It's Christmas with a Capital C, a ghastly little movie to pander to the Christian persecution complex at Christmas time.

I've seen enough — I think I'll skip it. Not that I'm likely to have much chance of seeing it: I don't frequent church basements, and I don't watch the Trinity Broadcast Network, and I don't plan on getting pithed any time in the near future.

Tags

More like this

Yes, the book. My Job in 10 Years: The Future of Academic Libraries. To rewind a bit, the story begins this past January. I did a little off-the-cuff post on how libraries could model their web presences on commercial book-related sites like Tor.com or the Globe & Mail Books site. It ended…
I don't watch much network TV and I certainly don't watch Charlie Sheen's new show, Two and a Half Men. So I didn't know that the Christian Right is going bonkers over his mocking of Christ, Christmas and Christians earlier this week. At least that's their version. Apparently what he did is sing…
Here's a solicitation for reader input. A medical conference in the UK last week was told that the Government's faith in antivirals as the key to combatting a pandemic is misplaced. There was the usual handwringing about the havoc that a pandemic would bring and dueling views as to whether British…
As you watch the time fade away, sit back and enjoy it and start mentally rewriting your talk. I had it pared down to "I'll post it on the web later, bye!" Well, it really wasn't that bad. My YearlyKos panel on science consisted of me, Wendy Northcutt, Chris Mooney, and that big guy most people…