HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR

Ok...this is a rant, but a rated G rant. This rant is suitable for all audiences.

I hate calling this "the holidays." I know that other holidays come along this time of year besides Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. People celebrate Hanuka, Ramadan, Tet, Winter Solstice, Dongzhi Festival, Soyal, Yalda,  Shabe Yaldā, Mōdraniht, Saturnalia, Pancha Ganapati, Dies Natalis, Solis Invicti, Yule: Pagan, Anastasia of Sirmium, Malkh, Boxing Day, Kwanzaa, Saint Stephen's Day, Saint John the Evangelist's Day, Holy Innocents' Day, Saint Sylvester's Day, Watch Night, New Year's Eve, Hogmanay-- yeah, right, GOT IT.

Still, I do not see any corporations in the United States of America granting a day off for anything but Christmas Day and New Year's Day during the so-called holiday season. So, if we must, in our vanilla-watered-down-everyone-is-equal-please-don't-sue-me society, be politically correct and reduce the single most holy day of the year for the majority of living in North and South America, Europe, Australia, Africa, and the isles of the seas into "the holidays"-- then we must be equal. Corporations must now provide paid days off for ALL or these holidays.

Then, and only then, will I be o.k. with calling this time of year the holiday season.

MERRY CHRISTMAS everybody!