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Heaven forbid if we exclude, “Old Nick” from this year's office party. Having been afforded the ability to travel around the Earth more than once and observe many countries Christmas customs, Americans are the only ones who get after many years of celebrating this joyous holiday now openly doubt the magic of Christmas.

Self-discouraging atheists have taken upon themselves to embark on a litigious Jihad to completely exterminate all religious references to include, Christmas trees, cards, decorations, and department store employees dressed up as elves.

Just walk into any American department store during the Christmas season. Many customers and the department store employees are about as joyous as an elf with a ingrown toenail.

Many offices private and governmental no longer allow employees to openly display anything with a Christmas theme out of fear of offending someone or being bankrupted by a lawsuit.

Home owners who display the nativity scene in their front yards often wake up to find their displays or Christmas lighting vandalized or worse being brought before the local homeowners association for violating the rules.

America! We must stop this absurd silliness at once. The spirit of Christmas isn't offending, we are the ones who are doing the offending. Christmas means many things to many people all over the world.

For those who are so enamored with the notion that Christmas is strictly a Christian holiday and wish its destruction, you cannot be more further from the true meaning of Christmas. You see... The spirit of Christmas resides within the heart of each and every one of us, it has its own special meaning irregardless of who we are and our religion.

Christmas is memories of past and future, Christmas is being with mom and dad who are no longer with us, Christmas is putting a few coins in the Salvation Army bell ringers bucket and hoping that it will help someone, Christmas is being outside in the cool crisp winters night standing their by yourself and watching the twinkle lights sparkle in the neighbors yards, and Christmas is seeing a son and his family in whom you have not seen in a year.

So please America, I beseech you to go out and celebrate Christmas in whatever fashion you choose that brings joy to your heart and in some small way bring, "Peace on Earth and goodwill to men."
-- Melvin Leppla
Jacksonville, North Carolina

A related question is: What would Saturday Night Live do now that the election is over. Saturday's show suggested an answer: return to offensive mediocrity.
 
Naturally, people like to know which shows are Can't-Miss TV. Also helpful is to know is which shows are Must-Miss TV. Qualifying: SNL.
 
A measure of how bad the show was is that the lame and humorless routine by Justin Timberlake in which he attempted a run-through of an entire proposed show was not any less funny or entertaining than the entire show.
 
Almost all the skits had homosexuality as a text or subtext. They weren't gay.
 
One "gag" gagged: a comedy routine about suicide where the snappy ending was the suicide.
 
The awful Beyonce Knowles had dancers that in the first instance were Giganta Fey. And then dancers who were actual females, apparently because heterosexual dancing with her seemed not to fit the show.
 
Appropriately, one of the NBC ads was for an upcoming Rosie O'Donnell special. Those who think an ad for such a show could not be attractive would be correct.
 
Those who think there might be hope for SNL would be incorrect.
-- Richard L.A. Schaefer
Dubuque, Iowa

FAIR GAME
Re: Eric Heidenreich's In Praise of PETA:

I am a member of PETA and I agree that in this case, there was not choice but to kill the bear. I hope the man recovers. But I also understand that sometimes people like me that see all the mistreatment that the animals receive, can get really angry, and confused the guilty from the innocent.
 
For that I apologize.
 
But still hope and work for one day have a world with a fair protection to the animals.
-- Patty Milla

WAG THE DOG
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Vitality in the Wilderness:

Longshoreman philosopher Eric Hoffer had this notion of liberal and conservative figured out fairly well: You’re a conservative when you want to keep something, you are a liberal when you want something. Taking this formulation one just has to ask two serious questions of others in order to get a sense of what the argument may be all about. 

As to homosexual marriage: Why do these people try to “mimic” heterosexual people?  And if one really examines what is the resultant of homosexual behavior, the extinction of the species due to non procreation -- gays can’t procreate by definition (yea, I know, they depend on science or others to do the “nasty” work), isn’t it possible that deep within our psyche we know and understand this reality? That is why we reject it.

The old argument comes back again: Does the dog wag its tail, or does the tail wag the dog? Dr. Freud can you explain for us your notion of the hysterical character.
-- Robert Philips
Corrales, New Mexico

BIRTH MARKS
Since the election I have been troubled by a growing number of individuals who have filed lawsuits challenging the eligibility of Barack Obama and in some cases John McCain. I initially saw these as fringe elements dissatisfied with the election results, but as I’ve looked into the facts of the cases and seen how two have preceded to their current state at the U.S. Supreme Court I am growing alarmed about a potential Constitutional crisis.
 
The lack of media coverage has been alarming as well as the lack of a simple response on the part of Senator Obama to quell this problem. If someone like yourself with a well-known and established credibility would accurately portray these cases for what they are -- the dissatisfied efforts of fringe individuals or something more credible it would go a long way to preventing a last minute explosion of alarm and distrust among the electorate.
 
Please consider investigating these cases and presenting your thoughts about them. I have found the most concise description of the pertinent facts to be those, not in the two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, but rather paragraphs 80 to 83 in the Petition for Writ of Mandate filed by Ambassador Alan Keyes in that State of California.
 
I hope that you will consider looking into these cases and being one of the first members of the media to let the public know the truth about them.
-- Mark Fisher

Letter to the Editor