Oldies but Goodies from previous bloggings
Happy Holidays and Other Profanities
Bill O’Reilly just doesn’t get it.
Last year, the controversial host of The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel decried what he termed “the war on Christmas” waged by so-called “secularists” seeking to remove any religious significance from the birth of Jesus Christ. The worst example of what he called the “anti-Christmas jihad” was the rampant use of the salutation “Season’s Greetings” or “Happy Holidays” rather than the more religiously specific “Merry Christmas” in both public and private sectors.
Houston Serves the Dalai Lama a Rita
To heck with the recently sold-out Paul McCartney concert — I got tickets to see the Dalai Lama in person for his scheduled September 22 talk at Rice University. VIP tickets, no less. And they were no easy get.
Unfortunately, I never used them.
The Children’s Candidate
I fell in love with JFK. He was the leader of the leader of the free world and I was in second grade. He awakened some pre-prepubescent womanhood in me. I’d watch network news in hopes of catching a glimpse of my King Arthur and when I did, looked away, blushing.
My babysitter manipulated my crush as pretense for daily chores. I rushed to clean house before a promised visit by the Chief Executive after which I found an “autographed” note from “him” thanking me for the outstanding job of cleaning up for my country, which I hid under my mattress fearful of Secret Service recriminations.
On November 22, 1963, we just finished our school lunch when a red-eyed teacher announced the assassination. I remember belting a classmate because she expressed pleasure in the murder as her dad had voted for Nixon. I never cared much for politics in my childhood years after that.
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