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 […]
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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, Easter, 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, religious freedom, Roman, Sabbath, Sarah Palin, Saturnalia, secular saboteurs, secularism, The Junto, the secularist agenda, war on Christmas, wassailling 12 Comments
MarkMaynard.com’s first annual Simsgiving
For the past few years, I’ve marked Thanksgiving by posting the same damn thing on my site – a long, somewhat obscure, list of things that I’m thankful for, culminating in a scene from one of the Addams Family movies in which Wednesday Addams, portraying Pocahontas in a youth production of the first Thanksgiving, turns […]
Posted in Other, Special Projects Also tagged Addams Family, Charlie Brown, friend to the friendless, friends, open thread, Pocahontas, recipes, Simsgiving, Thanksgiving, things I'm thankful for, Wednesday Addams 24 Comments