degringolade

Back from the enforced togetherness of Christmas. I enjoyed myself but in today's world, Christmas is mostly an occasion for giving presents to children who already own too much. I suppose that this has been the core of the tradition here in the US for four or five decades now, but being a slow old man, it is just now starting to get to me.

We did manage to cut back from the presents to adults, all of us simply have too much stuff hanging around anyway, so what we got was chocolate which is a good gift, and it was a gift exchange where the adults only got one gift. So life is good.

All this christmas (and I have decided not to capitalize christmas any more within our secular society) is really not all that important to me as I definitely and not a capital "C" christian. But I was amused by a piece over at Politico Europe that made the odd claim that the "far right" has made Christmas an issue. Apparently Christian's think that Christmas is their holiday.

I suppose that they are correct about that.