Happy Holidays, defeating Merry XMAS

It was a slow news day, nothing inspiring anywhere on the net. On the train ride home, I read an Op-Ed by Joel Stein, from the LA Times. Apparently, the media has become fixated with this concept that we as a culture and country we are losing Christmas. Fox News is going on the attack about how retail stores are losing the Merry Christmas greeting and moving to a more generic Happy Holidays.

THERE IS A grave concern, on news shows and Op-Ed pages, that we are about to lose Christmas. Though no one outside the media is at all interested, I figure jumping in will make my editors think I'm smart.

As a Jew, I don't care that much about Christmas. It's hard to celebrate someone's birth when you supposedly killed the guy. It would be like Arnold Schwarzenegger giving gifts for Tookie Day.

We Jews find it a little embarrassing that adults can still make such a big fuss over Christmas. To us, Jesus was just a cool guy everyone liked because he died young. And even 16-year-old girls eventually take down their James Dean posters.

Now as another Jewish person, how other people greet each other does not matter to me, but in business I request that the companies that I work for, refer to it as a holiday party, rather than a Christmas party. Simply because I don't celebrate Christmas, but I do wish to get into the holiday spirit of love they neighbor and all that crap. I also believe businesses should be open to various disparate beliefs of their customers, and present an open ideal of shopping mania so everyone can go equally crazy spending their hard earned cash.

As an aside, I find Joel Stein one of the funniest men around, falling just short of Dave Barry.

And the Onion joins this ridiculous fracas with Acitivist Judge cancels Christmas. Absolutely hysterical stuff