That's the Spirit!

It used to be that I'd mark the beginning of the Christmas season when Norelco would start running the ad where Santa is zooming around the snowy countryside in the an electric razor head. Those were good times.

But this year, I got my first winter holiday reminder a few days ago in an anxious email alert from the fanatics at the American Family Association. Yes, the war against Christmas has begun again, led by those infidels at Sam's Club who have refused — no doubt out of their devotion to our Dark Lord Satan — to use the word "Christmas" when referring to wrapping paper and ribbon in an August circular.

The AFA says it just wants to "keep Christ in Christmas," and I wish them good luck with that. I'm sure that slinging accusations of religious intolerance at everyone who doesn't share precisely your narrow vision of piety toward plastic Santas and shiny bows is exactly what Jesus would do.