Boxing Day

Well, Christmas has come and gone. After an eternity of Christmas music, Christmas lights, Christmas parties, and Christmas advertising, the great day is over. All that hoopla for an hour's worth of opening presents.

"There's nothing doner than Christmas," as my old friend John Greene liked to say.

And from my untrained eye, Christmas went on pretty much as it always has despite the best efforts of liberals and the ACLU to quash it. The Christmas cudgel hammered America unimpeded. Bellies, merchant coffers, and alms basins all were filled. Luminaries and bayberry candles were lit, we worshipped (unless you go to an evengelical megachurch), no sacrifice was made (unless you live along the Gulf Coast or you're one of those families with loved ones in Iraq). No one - from what I can tell - came away from the day feeling slighted because they were wished compliments of the season.

Fox News must be bitterly disappointed.

I can't wait to see what new, trumped-up faux-crisis Fox News will blame liberals for creating. I can see the Fox News headlines now: "Liberals claim New Year's holiday not inclusive; Jews, Muslims, and Chinese feel slighted. ACLU sues to stop New Year's Eve parties. Happy New Years! greeting to be banned in public facilities. Court order empties Times Square of revelers."

Happy Boxing Day.
K-