[JonoBN41]

Chip, do you really say that whole line everyone? That's quite a mouthful.

Brother Mike, you're right about the freedom we have. So why do so many of us not think we have that very freedom? If you have always said "Happy Holidays", that's cool. But I think many people today feel inhibited and say that just to be safe and PC. Just yesterday, on Christmas Eve, I ran across at least three people I've known since I was a kid and know I went to Catholic school for 9 years. They said "Happy Holiday"; I responded, "Merry Christmas.

Then there was the lighting of the Holiday Tree at Lincoln Center in NYC on November 29th. I swear it used to be called something else. Maybe it doubles as a New Years Tree, and heaven forbid we piss off the god of the New Year. We really have entered the age of wimpiness.

Years ago people used to win an Academy Award. Now the Oscar just "goes to" someone. The wimpy reasoning is that if there's a winner, then the others must be losers, and that's unthinkable. It might make them cry.

So, you won an Academy Award! Great! "Well not really, it just kinda went to me". Oh, you didn't really win it? "No, it just went to me".

We all know bullshit when we see it, and from what I've heard in the past few days, people are getting ticked off about all this pc stuff and it's time to apply the brakes and stand up for what you believe. That...is individual freedom at its finest.

Vir Quisque Vir

In ZAX,
Jono