Happy Holiday
Nothing says the Holdiay Season is here like a glass of red flavored punch, a cold congealed meatball and some bad karaoke!
Egoflash: It looks like I just might wrap up the last reviewer’s request and resubmit my manuscript. When that baby is accepted, I’m gonna Gavrilov it to death, posting the title one day, then the abstract, the materials and methods, daily updates when it is (or is not) referenced, a scan of the journal cover, repost the announcement in several forums, the impact factor of the journal, etc.
What else is new? Nothing much. I fixed the dryer vent yesterday.
Posted on Wednesday, December 7th, 2005 at 1:44 pm Categorized as:General You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
December 8th, 2005 at 4:56 am
‘Happy Holiday’? Bah humbug.
‘Merry Christmas’.
December 8th, 2005 at 5:02 pm
Hey, Avenger,
Check out the editorial at this link to the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/opinion/04sun3.html?hp
To quote the beginning:
“Religious conservatives have a cause this holiday season: the commercialization of Christmas. They’re for it.
The American Family Association is leading a boycott of Target for not using the words “Merry Christmas” in its advertising. (Target denies it has an anti-Merry-Christmas policy.) The Catholic League boycotted Wal-Mart in part over the way its Web site treated searches for “Christmas.” Bill O’Reilly, the Fox anchor who last year started a “Christmas Under Siege” campaign, has a chart on his Web site of stores that use the phrase “Happy Holidays,” along with a poll that asks, “Will you shop at stores that do not say ‘Merry Christmas’?”
This campaign - which is being hyped on Fox and conservative talk radio - is an odd one. Christmas remains ubiquitous, and with its celebrators in control of the White House, Congress, the Supreme Court and every state supreme court and legislature, it hardly lacks for powerful supporters. There is also something perverse, when Christians are being jailed for discussing the Bible in Saudi Arabia and slaughtered in Sudan, about spending so much energy on stores that sell “holiday trees.”
What is less obvious, though, is that Christmas’s self-proclaimed defenders are rewriting the holiday’s history. They claim that the “traditional” American Christmas is under attack by what John Gibson, another Fox anchor, calls “professional atheists” and “Christian haters.”…
However, I think the traditional British Christmas is doing well, is it not?