Save Christmas!

Is there anything that the foot soldiers of the right won't whine about? Wingers control the White House, Congress, many statehouses, and much of the media. But still, as Tom Tomorrow points out, they still have to pretend that liberals are out to get them.

Take James Lileks (off the opinion page, at least). Like many righties, this week he is complaining about how everybody is out to get Christmas. Yes, we ungodly liberals are somehow trying to eliminate this holiday by making people say "Happy Holidays" or something.

Call me crazy, but Christmas seems to be alive and well. Christmas is everywhere. I have a Christmas tree in my place, and I'm sure people like Lileks would think I'm a damn Commie. Almost every business has decorations. Christmas is in no way disappearing, but hey, conservatives have got to complain about something.

If so-called religious conservatives were actually honest and consistent (if, if...), then I could see why they would lead the charge to take Christmas out of the public business sphere and put it back in homes and church. After all, the commercialization of Christmas, the selfishness of the season, does get in the way of the true religious meaning of the holiday. Thirteen years of Catholic school has taught me that much. But no. These people are mad because businesses aren't doing enough for Christmas. For Christmas to have any meaning at all according to them, every single locale in the country has to have signs and employees that wish everybody Merry Christmas. If Lileks ever had the guts to wander down Lake Street (and I doubt he would), I guess he would expect the halaal grocery stores to have these signs too.

The culture of victimhood. Republicans love it.