Holidays

Santa Claus is on the 'net: > Out-of-work actor Kevin Lowry thinks he has not only stumbled upon a holiday gold mine, but perhaps his perfect role: Santa Claus. > No matter that the 27-year-old Chicagoan has nary a white hair upon his head, or that he tips the

From the New York Post: [http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/59662.htm] > A 10-year-old girl was so disgusted by the ghoulish slasher Santa on East 18th Street she wrote the couple who put it in their front yard yesterday and begged them to take it down – for fear

The Christmas Wars remind me of a phenomenon that I see repeatedly during volunteer efforts. If I'm in a meeting and a person doesn't like a particular idea, one of the favorite tacts is to raise the specter of liability. "I don't think

Funny stuff: > In keeping with the spirit of political correctness, the Catholic League recommends the adoption of the following songs at Holidaytime: > “I'm Dreaming of a White Holiday”; “O Holiday Tree”; “All I Want for The Holiday Is My Two Front Teeth; “We Wish You a

A reader writes in response to yesterday's post [https://thedailyeudemon.com/3310/] about the Wisconsin school that secularized Silent Night and brought in Labafana the Witch. According to the reader, Labafana has Christian origins, and she referred me to this Wikipedia page [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Befana]

FYI [http://wireservice.wired.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1129685&tw=wn_wire_story] : > Pope Benedict warned on Sunday against rampant materialism which he said was polluting the spirit of Christmas. > "In today's consumer society, this time of the year unfortunately

I always wondered about this: > Most children start questioning the existence of Santa Claus when they are between 6 and 8. By the time they are 9 or 10, most have ceased believing entirely, said Paul Harris, a developmental psychologist and a professor at Harvard University. Link [http://www.

The "Christmas Wars" make me a little bit uneasy, but they're necessary. The secularists have beaten the tar out of Christians for too long, and it results in things like the practice in one Ridgeway, Wisconsin elementary school [http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/12/82005a.asp]