Posts Tagged ‘holiday season’

Larry Bleidner

Celebrate the Holidays the ‘You’ve Been Gored’ Way: Festive Ideas for Believers and Skeptics Alike

by Larry Bleidner

With just a few shopping days until Christmas, “You’ve Been Gored” offers….

Holiday Ideas for Green Grinches & Climate Change Believers!

CCB – that’s Climate Change Belief – is a religion. It has a God (Gore) and prophets/saints (DiCaprio, Sting), but where are the holidays? Christmas and Chanukah offer great reasons to eat, drink and get crazy. But ALpostles, convinced that all human activity damages Gaia, are such a gloomy  bunch.

So enviro-doomsayers, pull up an old cable spool next to the artificial, non-denominational log, grab a bowl of recycled waste-punch and get in the spirit with these fun holiday ideas. (more…)

Warner Todd Huston

Best Buy Ditches ‘Christmas’ But Celebrates Muslim Holiday in Fliers

by Warner Todd Huston

Christmas. Who needs it? Not Best Buy, that’s for sure. After all, Best Buy is loathe to use that hateful word in its advertising. It’s so “religious” and tinged with racism, America, and tradition. It makes Best Buy shudder to think of using that foul word, Christmas. But, advertising for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha? Heck, why not? What could be more welcoming and tolerant?

And so, Best Buy has issued a Thanksgiving sales flyer wishing all good multi-cultural, Muslim loving Americans a happy Eid al-Adha this year.

Don’t you feel your heart warming already? Isn’t your PC bone tingling with happiness? And aren’t you secretly gleeful that those rotten, evil, reactionary, hatemongering Christians are getting theirs… even if Christians do make up about 75 percent of the United States?

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Publius

Friday Free-For-All: Black Friday Edition

by Publius

Today is the first official day of what will likely be a disappointing (in terms of retail sales)  holiday season:

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