This holiday season Sarah Palin became the most recent in a long line of shameless conservative pundits to cash in on the so-called War on Christmas. Her book, “Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas,” was released at the end of November to the delight of poorly informed Fox News-viewers everywhere. The […]
Tag Archives: Easter
The early American origins of the War on Christmas
Posted in History, Religious Extremism, Uncategorized Also tagged Bible, Bill O'Reilly, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Church of England, evangelical, Foolstide, FOX News, Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas, human sacrifice, Increase Mather, Jesus, Michael D. Hattem, nativity, pagan, paranoia, persecution complex, Puritans, religious freedom, Roman, Sabbath, Sarah Palin, Saturnalia, secular saboteurs, secularism, The Junto, the secularist agenda, war on Christmas, wassailling 12 Comments
“Jesus died for somebody’s sins, but not mine”… Happy Easter from Patti Smith
Patti Smith recently announced that she has a new record coming out, which will include a track with Television’s Tom Verlaine. I don’t know that I’d mention it otherwise, as I haven’t heard it yet, but, since its release happens to almost coincide with Easter, and as it gives me a reason to quote one […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Uncategorized Also tagged April Fool., Banga, Gloria, Grateful, horses, music, My Blakean Year, Patti Smith, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tom Verlaine 13 Comments
Bunny Heads
Posted in Locally Owned Business, Photographs Also tagged child trauma, decapitation, Easter Bunny, Fantasy Attic 6 Comments