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The Nation's Pulse
Why Liberals Love Halloween
Not that sugar candy makes them any sweeter.
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8. It allows for witch-hunting. In a pre-Halloween television ad last October, then-Republican Senate candidate (and self-confessed former “dabbler” in witchcraft) Christine O’Donnell declared, “I’m not a witch” — a line so effective in establishing innocence that thousands of lives could have been spared during the Inquisition had anyone thought of it at the time.
Downside: None.
9. It’s an excuse for feminists to flout their femininity. Even the bra-burning Gloria Steinem can show a little skin on Halloween, the one night of the year when all women can dress as strippers without damaging their ideological credibility. Indeed, on no other day is it so easy to reconcile women’s rights and fishnet tights. You can stand for the former and strut in the latter.
Downside (for men): Feminists don’t make for the best eye candy.
That’s why liberals love Halloween. Though it may be just a one-night stand, the two are made for each other. The pretense of disguise lets liberals be themselves. Luckily the affair happens but once a year.
About the Author
Windsor Mann is a writer living in Washington, D.C., and the editor of The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism.
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Grieving the Holy Ghost| 10.28.11 @ 7:12AM
It would be better for Mr. Windsor Mann (oh really, that's the name?) to do a serious expose on Halloween in its contemporary form.
It is ghastly and engulfs the land in America's northeast.
Yes, no wonder that liberals (those with no moral compass) embrace and flaunt Halloween.
It would be better to talk on the theme -- "Halloween, yet one more tangible factor in the sure demise of America."
It would be better to take on the "moral equivalency" crowd that wants to laugh Halloween off as just a 'harmless activity.'
It is not. And it certainly is not a "one-night stand." Its been raging along in parties, happenings, events, bar theme nights, store decorations, costume shows, dress-up contests, house decorations, etc. for an entire month already.
And the adults are in the vanguard of this perversion.
Halloween: Almost, but not yet, more 'celebrated' than Christmas.
USSAlabama| 10.28.11 @ 10:02AM
Gosh! What people don't know.
Drive by a cemetery in New Orleans on November 1 and tell me there is no All Saints Day. You'll see people with picnics or some just sitting on the benches -visiting-.
Grieving, I'm not convinced of the "almost". Drive through some neighborhoods and look at the yards -- WORSE than Christmas - with the light displays, cob-web decorations all over the landscape, lighted skull walkway lights . . .
The list is tooooo long. And disgusting. Kids come by dressed like ghoulish HOOKERS.
My Rule: Little kids get candy; anyone who looks over 12 years --- gets a rock.
SoreEyes| 10.28.11 @ 10:03AM
Mr. Windsor Mann (pretentious parents, no doubt) is wearing a fake sun tan.
Evelyn| 10.28.11 @ 10:05AM
That's no suntan! That's pancake makeup if I've ever seen it.
George II| 10.28.11 @ 10:07AM
Pancake makeup or not. He compiled that book on Christopher Hitchens--the World's #1 Atheist--so what is he doing here on A S?
Tiddledywinks| 10.28.11 @ 10:10AM
Miss Windsor Mann not only wears pancake makeup but eyeliner as well. He's seen often at a gay bar on P Street--evidently his favorite hangout.
Harry the Horrible| 10.28.11 @ 10:11AM
Wonder what he'll look like Halloween night? He'll probably be in full drag.
J@ck O Lantern| 10.28.11 @ 10:13AM
Judging by his face, he'd look pretty in pink.
Clint| 10.28.11 @ 5:08PM
I think he's one cute dude.
Clint| 10.28.11 @ 8:57PM
Hey. Dr.Reich Quit Poseur Punk Posting Under My Name, Joisey Fag Queen.
Dave Williams| 10.28.11 @ 1:14PM
Are you saying atheists don't belong here? Sorry, pal, we are here, and everywhere, and growing in numbers daily. By the way, a little thought will show why all true conservatives OUGHT be be racists. Conservatives want no meddling from temporal powers above, and atheists want no interference from alleged spiritual powers above -- which HAVE YET TO BE PROVEN TO EXIST!!!! (P.S. You can't prove they do, because they DON'T!)
Dave Williams| 10.28.11 @ 1:15PM
Wow, in line 3 that should be "atheists"...sorry, folks, a slip of the fingers.
Cherille| 10.28.11 @ 1:43PM
A Freudian slip?
TrueBlue| 10.28.11 @ 2:31PM
Science can't prove half of their Theories, that's why they are labeled as a Theory and not a Law. No matter how many tests they do, nobody can prove the THEORY that life started as a couple of benign elements that suddenly decided to spring together and start all life. A greater power is just as viable a possibility as that one, and given the number of still unexplainable events (like small people being able to lift cars, which shouldn't be physically possibly even with adrenaline, but yet still has happened, and cannot be explained by scientists) is more likely to be true. That said I still respect your opinion on the matter, I've been there before.
LiveFreeOrDie| 10.28.11 @ 3:46PM
Atheism = 2 parts ignorance + 1 part hypocrisy. Agnostic I understand but atheism is the steadfast belief in "nothing," which cannot be proven. Atheists ridicule a belief in "something" because it can't be proven when at least some evidence exists to the contrary. To the average self-proclaimed atheist's credit, most are really agnostic but don't know the difference.
AlicePolarbear| 10.29.11 @ 12:37AM
True Atheism is its own religion. True believers in No-God must exercise as much faith as any Evangelical or Catholic. From what I can see, Atheism is becoming the state religion of the United States.
Trav| 10.31.11 @ 2:10PM
I am a self-aware and self-proclaimed atheist. When people slap me with the "you can't prove it's not true, so you are equally flawed" argument, I respond that I'm an atheist in order to even out the sides.
Sort of like I'm an independent but like to vote in primaries, so register as Democrat (my state has no provisions for independent voters).
Mister Grady| 10.31.11 @ 12:22AM
Whenever atheists boast that their is no proof that God exists, I always reply, "And you can't prove that he doesn't, so on that count we are even, and whether you believe or don't believe, you are, in fact, believing based on faith in something you can't prove."
Chuck Anziulewicz | 10.28.11 @ 7:38AM
Jeez, what a Grinch.
Peter McGrath| 10.28.11 @ 8:07PM
There is some support for the proposition that Jesus was born around October 31. Makes sense to me ...
Robert Pinkerton| 10.28.11 @ 7:51AM
A propos point 7: The Christians tried taking Hallows over, re-na,img it "All Saints Day." Actually, that is not a completely bad fit, because to those of us who keep Faith with the Old Gods, Hallows is that Feast wherein we honor those whom we loved who are no longer with us in the incarnations wherein we knew them.
A propos point 8: This is one of a myriad of reasons why I cannot be a Christian, because I think that any God under Whom the Inquisition is "holy(?!?!)" is unworthy of human worship because confessional jurisprudence is nothing less than the vilest abomination mankind has ever raised. Confessional jurisprudence was stock-in-trade of the Inquisition, and its motley line of succession right down to the Komitet po Gosudarstvennoi Bezopaznostii.
God| 10.28.11 @ 8:21AM
Time to come out of the Middle Ages. This kind of thing was not sanctioned by anyone of good faith, but was an excess of human weakness and loss of guidance. People like you.
Ray| 10.28.11 @ 12:17PM
The celebration itself has roots in pagan holidays (the Celtic Samhain most likely) but the name Halloween (All Hollows Eve) is unarguably derived from being the day before (Eve) All Saints' Day (All Hollows), a Catholic holiday. The similarity of the dates most likely isn't a coincidence, the early Christian Church is notorious for co-opting pagan holidays, most notably dropping Christmas near the Winter Solstice.
Seek| 10.28.11 @ 3:25PM
Exactly. Someone here understands: If anyone can be "blamed" for Halloween, it's the Irish Catholics getting in touch with their pagan roots.
Ah, the Irish! Gotta love 'em. In the meantime, happy trick-or-treating.
TrueBlue| 10.28.11 @ 2:52PM
What you are thinking of was the use of torture in the punishment of heresy, usually the result of an Inquisition (the act of inquiring into a matter; an investigation), which was definitely taking it too far, and has been acknowledged as such by most of the current day Christian organizations. People are human, yes even priests, and they make mistakes. The ones responsible are no doubt spending their time in Hell as they violated one of the major tenants in the Ten Commandments; Thou shalt not murder. Being a non-believer has never been considered worthy of death under Christianity, even in God's eyes (though if you knew of God and refused to believe or rejected him you DO damn your eternal soul), if you read the words spoken by Christ. The only time it was acceptable is self-defense, and partially acceptable (depending on interpretation) in the case of the public good when dealing with a murderer.
Mister Grady| 10.31.11 @ 12:28AM
Grow up. The Inquisition was a Catholic thing. Not a Christian one. If people would just adhere to the New Testament, we'd be fine. The Inquisition was not prescribed in the Bible, so don't blame it on Christ.
Lullabys, Legends and Lies| 10.28.11 @ 7:55AM
This Halloween I'm dressing up as a Fox News watching, God fearing, bitter, gun clinger, as I always do.
Herb| 10.28.11 @ 11:27AM
After I came back from deployment I wore my desert uniform to our building's Halloween party, complete with soft cap, fake pistol and ballistic sunglasses. Our resident liberal wacko Bush hater asked the hostess to ask me to leave as she found my `militaristic costume' just toooooooo frightening! The hostess laughed and told her to lighten up.
Occam's Tool| 10.31.11 @ 1:28PM
Did she then ask you out? Usually follows.
Herb| 10.28.11 @ 7:58AM
Wiccan bilge on Halloween. Whoop-ti-doo.
Kirk| 10.28.11 @ 12:40PM
This Halloween I'm going out as a Seeing Eye Dog.
Cherille| 10.28.11 @ 12:41PM
Would you like a compani0n, Kirk?
I have a handicapped face. We would make a pair.
Mike Hawk| 10.28.11 @ 8:18AM
I think for Halloween I will again be myself, the most horrifying thing my Ex can think of.
Smoke 'em if you got 'em ...| 10.28.11 @ 8:41AM
Last Halloween I decided to break with tradition, and instead of handing out candy bars I handed out packs of cigarettes. You should've seen the faces of those little moppets light up when "The Marlboro Man" gave them their treats!
real demographics| 10.28.11 @ 8:43AM
Halloween is not to be trivialized. If you think it is just little kids under age 11 dressing up as little princesses or pirates vying for more more candy corn, M&M's, and Reece's Pieces, no, you are really out of touch.
One could lay down several maps of America. Maps that depict what is going on in the nation.
The first map depicts the bastions where Halloween is revered more than Easter. Think the suburbs of Philadelphia, Hartford, and Boston. The second map is an overlay; this overlay shows the left-liberal (dark blue -- if you wish to use a color) strongholds in the nation.
The third map (overlay) shows the greater density of churches and active churchgoers.
Any surprise that the third map's colorizaton lies distinctly outside the zones depicted on maps 1 and 2?
Any surprise that the Tea Party faithful who are trying (perhaps in vain) to salvage the nation do not come from the darkened zones on maps 1 and 2?
Mike Hawk| 10.28.11 @ 12:06PM
In the suburbs of Philadelphia?? Gee, I haven't seen it it in this one or any of the adjacent ones either. WHo made that map up??
Peter McGrath| 10.28.11 @ 7:56PM
Philly is the armpit of the country, a national disgrace. Whatta dump. Who could ever conceive of anything worthwhile about Philly since, say, 1911. W.C. Fields had it exactly right - on his gravestone - "On whole, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." Otherwise, I'd avoid the corrupt, dim-witted, union-dominated, open air dump like the plague.
Clint| 10.28.11 @ 9:08PM
Apparently, You Are Unfamiliar With The Rittenhouse Square Area,The Fiddler's Square Area, The Society Hill Area, Chestnut Hill Area Of Philadelphia & The Wealthy MainLine Suburbs Of Philadelphia & The Wealthy Horse Country In Philadelphia Collar Counties.
Clint| 10.28.11 @ 9:28PM
We Have Tea Party Groups All Around The Philadelphia Area.The Independence Hall Tea Party Association, The Lower Bucks County Tea Party, The Valley Forge Patriots Tea Party, The Delaware County Patriots Tea Party, The Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots, The Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots -Northeast, The Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots -Center City, The Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots Central Montgomery County, The Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots Central Montgomery County, The Philadelphia Tea Party Patriots- Northwest, UNITEPA-912 Group, The West Chester Tea Party, The ChesCo Patriots Of Exton, The Bucks County Citizens, The Blue Bell Tea Party Patriots, and Others Not Within The Tea Party Patriots Umbrella Group.
Moe Blotz| 10.29.11 @ 1:30PM
Do you not recognise any Tea Party groups in New Juhsey?
Clint| 10.29.11 @ 3:18PM
There Are New Jersey Groups Close To Philadelphia.
South Jersey Citizens, South Jersey Tea Party, Cherry Hill Area Tea Party, Collingswood Tea Party Patriots.
New Jersey Has 77 Tea Party Groups In The Tea Party Patriots Umbrella Group.
Louis Jenkins| 10.28.11 @ 9:05AM
What do people like the First Wookie and the President dress up as? Seems they have cornered the market on wierdness and spending. The least likely spook to be imitated will be Border Patrol agents, as there is a domestic open war on them, with a price on their heads.
Say Baptist| 10.28.11 @ 10:01AM
In another time I was CITY TREASURER. At the municiple Halloween party I wore a masque which completely concealed my face. I wore a label that stated FACELESS BUREAUCRAT I scared the hell out of everybody.
Bill Diebold| 10.28.11 @ 10:08AM
...that's not universal to all liberals, but very convenient for some. For example What would hillary or nancy or debbee wasserman schmultz need with expensive make-up? It's reasonable to assume that halloween is their busiest season and they probably spend a lot of tax money to overhaul their brooms when it's past, but they're special and deserve eveything they get partcularly on Nov 6 2012. Maybe we Americans can give them the retiremet they so richly deserve ahh but that's the price of beauty...
After all, liberals are a good example of mother nature's sense of humor...
Petronius| 10.28.11 @ 10:29AM
Last year I gave out copies of old tax receipts and told the kids that was the reason there wasn't any candy. This year I will do the same as the people who live in Wales. Nobody there goes out after dark. Stay in and drink heavily inside the Wards.
Al Adab| 10.28.11 @ 11:33AM
And all these years I thought it was a religious holiday. All Saints day, All Hallows Eve, Martin luther. Gosh who knew.
Doctor Right| 10.28.11 @ 11:56AM
I hate Halloween.
It's become a month-long party.
And the costumes that glorify gore or sexualize young girls are gross.
Halloween sucks.
Mike Hawk| 10.28.11 @ 12:08PM
All too true. It has become a celebration of the macabre and the gross and more for stunted mental growth adults than for the kids.
Occam's Tool| 10.31.11 @ 1:17PM
My son is going as Darth Vader. My daughter as Cleopatra (long skirt, headband, nothing provacative---carefully selected by her mother). The local Wal-Mart is doing trick or treat until 10 PM. I plan to hopefully be home by 6 PM to go with them to the neighbors, and then maybe to Walmart.
Then it will be time to watch Riff-Trax, take my evening vitamins, and go to bed.
I do, however, believe that Liberals should wear fishnet stockings year round. Especially in Minnesota. Makes them easier to pick out.
Occam's Tool| 10.31.11 @ 1:18PM
They are homeschooled---sleep is not a problem.
Naturalborn Texicanette| 10.28.11 @ 12:53PM
Amen Mike Hawk!! Just another excuse to get drunk and act obnixious!!!!!!!!!!!
Skippy| 10.28.11 @ 1:13PM
What a bunch of cranky old turds.
You guys need to find a moment to recall the fun you had on Halloween as a kid, and let todays kids enjoy it as well.
If you wanna get pissed off, remember when we kids got little waxpaper baggies full of fresh cookies or donuts, or hand-dipped candy and caramel apples.
Thanks to the "razorblade in the apple" urban legend, all a kid gets today are 1,442 packs of Skittles.
Were all you guys raised in POW camps?
CalMark| 10.28.11 @ 1:26PM
Concur.
I thought this was a hilarious piece of parody/satire.
And for those who insist on being serious all the time, I think it says some pretty devastating things about the left far more effectively than a serious, highbrow article.
TrueBlue| 10.28.11 @ 2:58PM
I have no issues with the current Halloween celebrations except the fact it becomes acceptable for girls (if they're under 18, they are GIRLS not women; many over 18 are too for that matter...) to dress up like street hookers. Well, more acceptable than it is on every other day at any rate...
Skippy| 10.28.11 @ 4:38PM
I dress as the scariest thing imaginable.
A creature so terrifying, even judges, priests and gurus will make up any BS story just to be relieved of being in my presence.
Fortunately, I need not spend big bux on a costume; I just dress the same as I do at work.
I am a car salesman.
Boo!
Mac Jehoff| 10.29.11 @ 1:32PM
Frank Hankins once said,"Never stir an old turd."
Pzkfw| 10.28.11 @ 1:37PM
The article was crap and the rest of you bible zombies need to lighten up.
What's next, we're all going to wear puritan clothing?
Go back to church and never come out.
Halloween is fun......d*cks
Nina| 10.28.11 @ 2:43PM
Yes, Halloween is fun. However, it is a pagen celebration and if someone is a christian, it goes against their belief. If you don't believe in it that way, just as a way to dress up or down or whatever, drink and party, then fine. You are missing the point of what they are trying to say in the comments. Funny tho, Liberals are always trying to get christians to stop celebrating certain holidays with bans on certain things but those also have pagen origins, if libs were as smart as they think they are, they'd leave it alone....
Pzkfw| 10.28.11 @ 3:10PM
Nina,
With respect, I didn't miss the point. In this day and age it's a dressup day, not a pagan holiday. Both sides need to drop the religious argument against the "meaning" of Holloween.
Christians need to leave Halloween alone and people trying to PC every religious holiday need to shut up as well.
It never fails to amaze me that this is "the land of the free" unless "you don't agree". Then the demands to conform begin.
The Bruce| 10.28.11 @ 3:53PM
"It never fails to amaze me that this is 'the land of the free' unless 'you don't agree.' Then the demands to conform begin."
AMEN.
Rosie| 10.30.11 @ 9:09PM
"It never fails to amaze me that this is the 'land of the free' unless 'you don't agree.' Then the demands to conform begin." That is excellent. Notice the author of this pathetic little piece refers to the gay community as "sexual noncomformists."
Nina| 10.28.11 @ 2:41PM
I thought Halloween was the only time Mooshell would allow the kiddies to eat candy!?
The Bruce| 10.28.11 @ 3:55PM
It's the one day a year that she puts down the BBQ, ribs, and lobster and starts tossing down Snickers bars two at a time.
Lee Ghume| 10.28.11 @ 6:43PM
Deep fried Snickers?
Dick Nome| 10.29.11 @ 11:23AM
...Idaho frnch fries.
Appleby| 10.28.11 @ 3:19PM
Thankfully the building in which I dwell does not allow kiddies to roam the halls, regardless of whether they or their relatives live in said building. There is a treat table in the lobby and that's as far as they can go. In this day and age we don't open our doors unless we know who's on the other side, and we never give out anything lest the tall thin ghoul accompanying the kiddies is their lawyer.
Skippy| 10.28.11 @ 4:39PM
Snort!
Herb| 10.28.11 @ 7:40PM
!tronS
;^)
POST American| 10.28.11 @ 11:44PM
-----Great piece.
---BTW---
Our sources, on the ground, report from
the EU, the teaching of history, ANY history,
prior to WWII has been officially abandoned.
Weeks ago we also posted that the EUGENICS
front UN has mandated 'space saving' at
libraries across the world ----incidentally
dumping millions of volumes of history.
AGAIN, if you come across ANY volumes,
esp. pre-1920 provenance, of history
--GRAB them as though your life depended
on it ----because it now does.
----------HUAC meets NUREMBERG 2012----------
--------------------EVERYWHERE!---------------------
Innocent II| 10.29.11 @ 3:33PM
Thanks, POST American. Love your posts. Brilliant!
Dick Nome| 10.29.11 @ 9:22PM
If you can make sense of them, you are crazier than P-A.
Occam's Tool| 10.31.11 @ 1:20PM
Innocent II was engaging in Snark.
Occam's Tool| 10.31.11 @ 1:19PM
PA---contact Stuart Koehl--he'll give you a Byzantine Empire reading list.
Dan Mathewson| 11.1.11 @ 7:22PM
Oh great, now Post will think that it's the cursed, Byzantine emperors, starting with Justinian the Great and coming down to our times who are really in control. The Turks never took CONtrol of Istabul. It was a LIE!
Ow, I think I strained my brain on the above.
Genesis 2| 10.29.11 @ 2:20AM
I think if some of the "oh, it's all just in good fun" crowd above actually went to a hardcore zombie walk using all the human senses, there would be those who experience great revulsion.
No, this is not all just in fun. There are witches; they are real. The occult exists. And there are those who willfully engage. Vodoo down south and in the Carribean is real. It is indeed powerful. It is real and powerful because the evil one empowers it.
The Bible talks about the unseen war, the war waged every day -- all around you. Paul writes very clearly about this. This is the war being waged for your soul. A war for the souls of your family, your friends, your neighbors.
Halloween is not sugar, apple cider, pumpkins, chocolates, and marshmellows. It is the benign seeming window dressing. It beckons for something else, it ushers in the occult.
It breaks down one's defenses.
Again, we're talking here where the adult proponents are doing. Not the harmless apple bobbing that 9 year olds are doing.
Satan does not appear as he is. He would never. All would flee. He, like the serpent in the Garden appears as something interesting, intriguing, even beautiful. Certainly not dangerous.
Haticol| 10.29.11 @ 3:30PM
Satan?
If you believe in Satan, you're living in a Halloween world.
Witches are real? Have mercy!
I thought they had been burned at the stake centurys ago.
You people just kill me. Satan! Witches!
Talk about supersticious nonsense. You can find it right here at A S.
Mister Grady| 10.31.11 @ 12:41AM
Some day you will be a very firm believer in Satan. And as long as you maintain your arrogance and your ignorance, then he will be your lord for eternity. Regardless of your belief system, hell is still there, and you're still goin', though I sincerely wish that were not true.
john dubose| 10.29.11 @ 10:59AM
Lets not loose perspective. For a huge majority of people Haloween is just an excuse to party. The little girls dressed up as vamps are learning the difference between make believe and real life.
It is a good lesson to get.
Mike Hawk| 10.29.11 @ 11:21AM
Yep, they need to learn to be real hookers instead of just look like them.
Moe Blotz| 10.29.11 @ 1:34PM
First they have to become prostitots.
(_!_)
Innocent II| 10.29.11 @ 3:32PM
Prostitots--prepubescent eye candy for the likes of you and your kind.
Dick Nome| 10.29.11 @ 9:20PM
I guess you don't recognize sarcasm even when it kicks you in your sorry butt. I guess you approve of 'with it" parents allowing their kids to look like little hookers too. BTW, a female talk show host who is very popular coined the phrase.
Petronius| 10.29.11 @ 2:55PM
If I want to scare the neighbors I just walk around holding a clip board with "Property of the I.R.S." stenciled on the back.
TaxTablesTed| 10.30.11 @ 3:51PM
Whew! Yah! Petronius, now that is truly frightning. I'll be bailin' out the kitchen's backyard window.
IRS?!! ("Yes, we're here from the government, and we're here to help.")
That wins for most frighteningly effective costume.
POST American| 10.30.11 @ 10:40AM
-----Great '90's Show' sideshow.
NOW ----back to crooked smiling capstone
'Christian' fraud, PAT ROBERTSON'S
blatant spit in the face of hallowed, Christ
uttered doctrine in the name of the
EUGENICS of 'CON--V--knee-ants'
----ie a greenlight to dumping one's spouse,
the love of one's youth, with Alzheimers.
---MEAN and 'Hallow--OB--scene'
----------that MUST BE called out.
------HUAC meets NUREMBERG 2012------
Abu Nudnik| 10.30.11 @ 1:40PM
A bit of a stretch if you ask me. Almost funny. The commentators who take this seriously, take a walk in a park or something.
Rosie| 10.30.11 @ 9:05PM
Most whiny, trivial, and somewhat offensive (see: feminists and gays) thing I've read lately? Yep, without a doubt. Get a grip - Halloween is just for fun (for all ages), and there are much more important things you could be spending your time complaining about.
Mister Grady| 10.31.11 @ 12:44AM
Gays don't care if they anger God, but we're all supposed to care if we anger gays? Well guess what? I DON'T care if I offend gays. They are perverts and unnatural. Deviants, all!
Rosie| 10.31.11 @ 11:59AM
One can only worry about angering a god if one believes in a god.
Occam's Tool| 10.31.11 @ 1:27PM
Dear Rosie:
name me one secular society that has an above replacement birthrate. I'll wait. (You may find New Zealand, bu Maoris are responsible for the birthrate being replacement, and they go to church.)
Skippy| 10.31.11 @ 4:44PM
Are you really Mark Steyn in seasonal costume?
The future belongs to those who actually reproduce.
Fruitless boinking does not count.
Rosie| 10.31.11 @ 9:22PM
My future belongs to me, actually, regardless of my choice not to reproduce in an already overpopulated world. "Fruitless boinking" does not count for what? Neither of you makes any sense whatsoever.
Rob | 10.31.11 @ 8:12AM
Republicans and conservatives need not wear a costume. They are scary enough as it is!
Rob - www.themainland.net
Penguins Fan| 10.31.11 @ 5:35PM
Mister Grady, stop shoving the Inquisition in my face as the worst thing ever done by a religious institution. All you are doing is promoting the Black Legend, you fool. Henry Tudor killed more during his reign than the entire Inquisiton - which was run by the Spanish government.
Jim Cap| 10.31.11 @ 6:42PM
Hey Windsor,
You left out the MOST important reason liberals love Halloween: Because it pisses right-wingers off!
We love watching the anger, the frustration, the bewilderment on your faces, knowing you're being left out---while secretly, desperately, wishing you could be a part of it. And also it feels good to know that try as you might, you'll never dislodge the uniquely American love of this holiday, given the billion dollar+ business that it is!
Happy Halloween, Windsor. Maybe next year your mommy will let you join us?
Jim Cap| 10.31.11 @ 6:43PM
Also, we are being asked to be respectful during our comments. That's a good thing.
But people like Windsor make it difficult when they stoop to the Rush Limbaugh mentality---making fun of "feminists" for being "unattractive".
What grade are you in anyway, Windsor?
Solo| 10.31.11 @ 9:16PM
Halloween is all about kids dressing up, having some fun pretending and the whole community gets into it by sharing cheap candy and a few laughs.
The kids are so excited and it's a very special and fun day for them. It's harmless fun.
Whew! Some of you guys need to take a chill pill.
Are you kidding me? I mean, "Satan"? Really?
If it is, we have nothing to fear 'cause he's lost his touch. The "inquisition".......THAT was Satan. But...the sound of children laughing and having fun....? Er....not so much!
Peter M. Dyga| 11.2.11 @ 9:24AM
Fun article; thanks. Only one comment regarding Halloween (aka All Hallow’s Eve). While the hedonistic and secular culture may be supplanting the intended nature of the evening, it does in fact have significant Christian historical roots.
HokenTaka| 12.9.11 @ 12:16PM
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HokenTaka| 12.9.11 @ 12:20PM
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HokenTaka| 12.9.11 @ 2:21PM
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