True. It remains a booty call, rather than a booty extradition.
Hahahah! Can I just say how glad I am to see this phrase/distinction being used? Hehehehe. Ah, Sarameg, how you have shaped our concept of "booty call" forever...
Y'all and your old-book-recommending are making me feel FRIGHTFULLY ignorant.
Also, I am online at this time of day because I decided I felt like crap, and could do my most urgent work from home, damnit. I had a coworker email me the forms. Note, however, that I am not actually working on the forms, yet...
This morning I had my first mammogram ever. Yes at 51 a bit late, but I did it. Twas easy
Go Laura go!
I guess maybe it does seem a little hypocritical to me for retailers to then worry about possibly offending the people who *aren't* shopping for Christmas gifts, when a huge portion of their annual bottom line is courtesy of the people who *are*.
It might not be the most financially savvy thing to do, but I still don't see where hypocrisy comes into it.
Voldemort?
That's exactly what I thought. But, he probably doesn't know about that whole thing, 'cause he probably boycotts the Harry Potter books.
Tim Wildmon, head of the American Family Association, based in Tupelo, Miss., weighs in on what he sees as the war on Christmas.
I'm from Tupelo. I had no idea the AFA was based there. That actually surprises me a bit - for a deep South town, I always thought we were pretty liberal.
We also don't have a Target. IJS.
What does Target think people are buying? They're buying Christmas gifts, not holiday gifts.
Every once in a while, I worry that the message I feel of "if you're not a Christian you aren't part of our culture" at this time of year is just me being paranoid and oversensitive. So nice to be reassured on that front.
Every once in a while, I worry that the message I feel of "if you're not a Christian you aren't part of our culture" at this time of year is just me being paranoid and oversensitive. So nice to be reassured on that front.
Yeah...wait, no it isn't.
Wonkette had a nice response to the White House xmas card issue:
May we suggest heeding National Council of Churches' Rev. Bob Edgar: "I think it's more important to put Christ back into our war planning than into our Christmas cards."
By the same token, though, Trudy's example of Columbus Day is a little different. Columbus Day is not, as far as I know, a traditionally gift-giving holiday. So the stores' decision to throw sales that weekend is up to them, and I don't think any consumers care why they're getting 50 to 75% off or whatever.
I phrased that badly. I just mean that stores don't "celebrate" or "acknowledge" ANY holidays, they're just an excuse for sales.
Every once in a while, I worry that the message I feel of "if you're not a Christian you aren't part of our culture" at this time of year is just me being paranoid and oversensitive. So nice to be reassured on that front.
And don't you forget it!
