Icepack | Dec. 24-31
It’s clockwork: Every year, within seven days of the holiday, we’re paid to take off and celebrate.
A local paper of record will ask its own tiresome version of “Is ‘Merry Christmas’ offensive to non-Christians?” with a tedious writer finding fault with God’s logic. As a dyed-in-the-dark-wool-devout Judeo-Christian Roman Catholic, I know that focusing on Christ at “Christmas” is meant to be inclusive of all – that was/is His whole deal. Like Funkadelic’s “One Nation Under a Groove,” where everyone EVERYONE is “getting down just for the funk of it. Good God.”
So, all creeds and colors are in on the Christmas tip, and under the Yuletide wire, log, what-have-you.