And people wonder why I bury myself in fiction and genealogy? Good grief, look at the latest tempest -- all about whether we should be saying "Happy Holidays" or "Merry Christmas!"
(Aside: it must be nice to live so obliviously, that you think this is the biggest problem in the world.)
Note to the ayatollahs -- and yes, that includes you, Mr. O'Reilly -- the root of the word 'holiday' is, now brace yourself, "holy day." When you wish someone "happy holidays," you are wishing them a happy day for whatever they are celebrating, whether that be Christmas, or Hannukah, or Eid, or Kwanzaa, or Jiminy Cricket's birthday.
If anyone's going to complain about that, shouldn't it be the atheists?
So, in the interests of PC non-offensiveness, and not to forget inclusiveness, I'd like to wish you all the very best of days, every day, whether or not you or anyone else recognizes it as having some civic, personal, religious, spiritual, or commercial significance; and whether or not it has any reference to any putative deity or deities, or historical and/or mythological status of same.
Let's see Hallmark come up with a card for that one!
Blessed be, y'all.
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