Yeah Josh, Aard, DKP; it is great to see you all again. !!! What could be better than to return in the Yuletide, debt free from Khuks and guns, soon able to aquire more debt in the company of friends?
My dear Momma once opined if children, particularly babies, weren't so cute we'd throw them into the river...
That's a little glib. Momma thought she knew a lot outside the box but missed a lot too. Once you have a child you love them and that's that.
I once thought we felt the same way about Christmas, a special time to come together, and that's that. But Christmas is under attack. Who'd a thunk? Dirty rotten oppressive coersive Christmas. Really, a great burden to be borne. How the enlightened suffer at our ignorant hands. Listening to singing and worship, friendship and humanity, giving and helping. Bah humbug indeed. I'm sure an antiseptic State Holiday, for Comrades everywhere, would be "fairer". We have nothing to lose but our chains. Drive a stake through the heart of Santa, that fat bastard, probably a child molester.
I have this quaint idea that the start of Winter, celebrated by cultures and religions throughout time, could be expressed by all without fear of offending any. That should have been that.
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