Dan Savage, Sarah Palin and the War on Christmas.

[nolabear]

Wherein Our Hero does what he does best.

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/good-grief-and-great-tits/Content?oid=18503580

[SalviaBlue]

1. I'm with Dan

I'm not saying Merry Christmas cause I don't want people to think I'm an asshole or anything like Palin.

[Sedona]

2. Best. War on Christmas essay. EVER

"Sarah Palin and Bill O'Reilly and Fox News and the Family Research Council and the woman who allegedly punched another woman outside Walmart earlier this week for saying "happy holidays" instead of "merry Christmas" managed to break me of the "merry Christmas" habit. I suspect I'm not alone. This constant bitching from the right about "happy holidays"—a perfectly lovely expression that embraces Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day, Pancha Ganapati, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day, Hanukkah, the Epiphany, Saint Nicholas's Day, Hogmanay, Twelfth Night, and Kwanzaa—has made one thing clear. Not that there is now, or ever was, a war on Christmas. But that saying "merry Christmas" is an asshole move. Just as conservatives made patriotism toxic during the Vietnam War by conflating it with blind obedience to authority ("My country, right or wrong!&quot , modern conservatives have made "merry Christmas" toxic by associating it with Christian fundamentalism, religious intolerance, and the politics of imagined persecution.

"Unfortunately, the war on Christmas is a game Palin and O'Reilly and Fox News and the Family Research Council can't lose. The more they complain about people saying "happy holidays" instead of "merry Christmas," the fewer people will say "merry Christmas." This will be held up as proof that the war on Christmas is real. But people like me aren't replacing "merry Christmas" with "happy holidays" to be "politically correct," as Palin insists in the introduction to her stupid book, we're doing it because we don't want people to think we're assholes.

So happy fucking holidays to you, Sarah."

[nolabear]

6. Dan don't play.

And he's just brilliant in his ability to cut through the obligatory niceness. And his IQ is in the triple digits!

[FSogol]

3. Awesome column. K&R. n/t

[NuclearDem]

4. Bwahahahahaha

"Terry? Where's Sarah Palin's book? It was by the front door."

"I threw it away. I'm sick of listening to you rant about it. And you could've hit me with it when you hurled it across the room. So now it's gone."

"I have to finish my review!"

"Well, you can't."

[MissMillie]

5. absolutely terrific

good find!