Dreaming of a Red Christmas

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 Lindsay Beyerstein
December 01, 2005

Slacktivist has a great series on Christmas music: Part I and Part II--bottom line, if we liberals are going to expunge Christmas from the holiday music charts, we're going to have to work a hell of a lot harder.

Instead of an all-out offensive on Jesus's birthday, Rob of HelpyChalk suggests surgical strikes on soft targets, including the David Bowie/Bing Crosby video of the "Little Drummer Boy" and "their damnable sweaters".

[Slacktivist, Big Monkey, Helpy Chalk]

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