Under the old monogamous system, we didn't have the problem of apportioning Thanksgiving and Christmas among your mother and stepdad, your dad and his third wife, your mother-in-law and her boyfriend Hal, and your father-in-law and his boyfriend Chuck. Today, serial monogamy has stretched the extended family to the breaking point. A child can now grow up with eight or nine or 10 grandparents -- Gampa, Gammy, Goopa, Gumby, Papa, Poopsy, Goofy, Gaga and Chuck -- and need a program to keep track of the actors.Garrison Keillor in 2009 on why Jews shouldn't write Christmas songs, like "White Christmas," "Winter Wonderland," "The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)," "I'll Be Home for Christmas," "Silver Bells," etc.:
And all those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest of that dreck. Did one of our guys write ‘Grab your loafers, come along if you wanna, and we’ll blow that shofar for Rosh Hashanah’? No, we didn’t. Christmas is a Christian holiday -- if you’re not in the club, then buzz off.I'm not sure where Jesus said that. Is that sentiment part of the whole "Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword" thing (Matt. 10:34)?
Why does anyone listen to "A Prairie Home Companion" any more? I never did understand why Robert Altman made a movie about it -- what a waste and a tarnish to a brilliant body of work.
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