Comments on: Christmas is still safe

By: Chris Arndt

Chris Arndt — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:14:28 +0000

DOUBLE SORRY.

Two years of procrastination. Not one.

Oh well. I’m sure you haven’t lost any traffic for it. Seriously.

By: Chris Arndt

Chris Arndt — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:12:08 +0000

Sorry I haven’t blog rolled you yet after this whole one year.

It’s been a procrastinatory year.

I maintain my views on the ACLU and the Christmas war thing.

I also believe in the left-wing media bias (re politics and culture) and the ultra-capitalist there-has-to-be-an-individual-icon media bias (re sports) and that none of this a conspiracy…. so much as a massive(ly annoying) coincidence.

I’m just glad I only had to recall the ACLU discussion for search purposes to find the html question I asked (which is far more relevant).

By: DC’s Missed Opportunity | K-Squared Ramblings

DC’s Missed Opportunity | K-Squared Ramblings — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 19:28:20 +0000

[...] Note to those who are likely to cite this as more evidence for the non-existent “War on Christmas:” Most of the stories in the book are Christmas stories. Many of them with the word in the title. And in a country where atheists are the most distrusted minority, the idea that Christians are being persecuted is laughable. (Why do I think this footnote is going to get more comments than the actual post?)

By: Chris Arndt

Chris Arndt — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 07:00:24 +0000

It seems right.

Of course, I told myself I’d roll Polite Dissent, Suspension of Disbelief, and about three or even four other blogs that have yet to go on the list, thanks to my procrastination…. grrrr. ah well.

By: Kelson

Kelson — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 04:45:18 +0000

No problem: It's ². You can also do subscript with ₂. So the "K-Squared" part can be written as: K²R Which shows up as "K2" [Edit: Well, it would if the comment form didn't strip it out. Grrr.] P.S. Thanks for the blogroll nod!

By: Chris Arndt

Chris Arndt — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:24:44 +0000

oh, and do you know how to do superscript in html? If I wanted to do K-Squared in number form, say, on my blog roll?

sorry, off-topic

By: Chris Arndt

Chris Arndt — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 15:13:35 +0000

Back to the issue at hand, I honestly don’t believe that there’s a conspiracy-like “War on Christmas” and never had. The thing is… a refutation that the Left is attacking Christmas from Salon dot com is an article by Michael Jackson saying that NAMBLA is okay. It’s not like something from the Weekly Standard or National Review defending the left, but, whatever. It’s got more weight if it’s a righty defending the left than Salon saying “no! no! the Left is doing nothing wrong!”

It’d be a coincidence that Salon is being straightforward and the writer’s bias is not what I would normally suspect it to be. It could be perfectly innocous and it likely is. It’s just like my buddy Josh Elder defending the Catholic church! He’s a Catholic! Writer John Derbyshire defends the Episcopal church but he is an emigrated Anglican himself. It’s Ted Nugent defending the NRA and Jonah Goldberg defending the Conservative Movement and Dick Cheney defending Neo-Cons! So yeah, even when they’re right (or wrong) they’ve chosen a side.

Now, I do believe that over the pasty fifty or sixty or perhaps 80 years (in case I have miscounted) that there has been a movement, somewhat not totally malicious in nature, to genericize Christianity and Christmas, and not neccessarily in that order. Who’s at fault for that? I don’t know. Serious research is for guys without tests on December 9th.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:57:02 +0000

Thank you, sir!

By: Kelson

Kelson — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 17:05:16 +0000

That would do it! I’ve edited the posts to fix it.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 14:49:48 +0000

Because I’m about 15 hours behind on sleep over the last four days.