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"This season, may your home be filled with family, friends, and the joy of the holidays.”

Yeah, leave it to the Kenyan Usurper to <a href="http:\/\/tv.msnbc.com\/2012\/11\/27\/happy-atheist-ricky-gervais-rewrites-pat-robertson\/" target="_blank">quote famous atheist Ricky Gervais </a>in his "holiday" card from the Formerly White House.

(Got my card today, by the way. It's quite nice!)

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Your cousin Vinny? Won't anyone think of the Utes?

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'The Donald' will object.

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Shouldn't there be the head of someone on the card? From a racial minority, perhaps?

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Football fans rioting in 3.. 2.. 1..

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me personally i like my christmas with loads of greenery, saturated nogs, bags of bling and as little jesus as possible.

(sorry mom.)

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I could have sworn it was Jews that were doing the spear-poking thing. Because Romans are mostly Catholics, which is sort of Antichristish, but still basically Christian, so it can't have been them.

Although, come to think of it, when it comes to spear-chucking, I'm pretty sure that's some other group of non-Christian scum . . . forget which bunch, though. Someone help me out, here. Anyone? Bueller?

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It was Leviticus: that bit about how it's a sin to eat seagulls.

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True to the Christian obsession with <strike>sex</strike> conception, about 300 years after the event, church leaders decided it was important to know when Jesus was conceived.

Apparently even when God's yo Daddy, gestation is still 9 months. (Who knew?) And for reasons I prefer not to explore, because eww, squick, early church scholars (or dingbats, if you will) decided that Jesus's conception and crucifixion must have occurred on the same day in the calendar. Because Sex = Death, or something. God likes patterns. Whatever.

So they counted backward 9 months from Good Friday and hey bingo: Dec. 25. Nothing at all to do with the Roman Saturnalia, or the early Christian propensity for syncretism, or any of that. Just the basic Sex = Death, over an over, reliably, always.

Which is why leaving the Christ out of December 25 greeting cards is so horrible and wrong: because it would be truly horrible and dirty if we celebrated Christ's conception instead, which is March 25. In other words, on Good Friday we should all turn our thoughts to some really unusually hot <strike>sex</strike> spiritual enlightenment Mary was having, which she later commemorated by assassinating her son. (With votes.)

Good summary of the various options here: <a href="http://www.bib-arch.org/e-f..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.bib-arch.org/e-features/christmas.asp">http://www.bib-arch.org/e-f...

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Well, the Pope. I mean: worse than Bin Laden. In fact, when Obama is not being Bin Laden, he is the Pope. Have you ever seen them together" Eh, have you?

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Anybody want to share some OT rage about this <a href="http:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/article\/338684" target="_blank">"accident"</a>?

<blockquote>Lt. Eric Hermick with the Pennsylvania State Police, said: "He got in the drivers side of the car, had a .9 mm gun in his hand, was setting it in the center console and it discharged, hitting his son in the upper right chest." The boy was already strapped in the booster seat when the gun went off accidentally. Police say the father was backing his car out of a space in the parking lot of Twig's Reloading Den, when the gun discharged....According to the police, Loughrey said he thought the gun was not loaded. But the store owner Leonard Mohney, who only heard the gunshot, said: “Instead of checking it, they’ll pull the magazine out and they will not check the chamber. It’s just an unfortunate incident.”</blockquote> Just! Ya gotta admire the safety-consciousness of a dad who puts his kid in the safety seat and then leaves a loaded pistol on the console.

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It also bothers me, deeply, that the White House Card leaves out:

Muslims Buddhists Islamics Hindus Zoroastians Environmentalists Druids Pagans Atheists My cousin Vinny My dog "Charlie" Gays Lesbians Transgenderians Vegans Vegetarians Specific Democrats Socialists and Ex-corporate magnates who saw the light and became socialists.

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Santa Claus died for our sins. Of course, it was from high cholesterol, but still...

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