Who says Jews and Muslims can’t get along? All it takes is getting attacked by militant pro-Christmas-ists for the People of Water and the People of Milk to band together. They aren’t exactly Bible-scholars though. One of them shouted “Oh, Hanukkah. That’s the day that the Jews killed Jesus.” Everyone knows the Jews killed Jesus a couple of days before Easter. Didn’t they see Mel Gibson’s big-budget snuff film? Come on, people. Get with the pogrom!
Be careful whom you wish a Blessed Yule, Happy Hannukah, Season’s Greetings or the dreaded and subversive Happy Holidays. You never know who might get severely bent out of shape over it. I’ve kind of followed everyone else’s lead this year. I wait until someone greets me, and I parrot it back at them. That seems safest. I can’t think of any greeting innocuous enough to use in any situation. You would think that Happy Holidays would do, but last year I got the evil eye from bank tellers, checkout clerks and coworkers every time I said it. One of them even corrected me. That was at Wally*World. No surprise there.
Feel free to enjoy the rest of 2007, in whatever manner you choose and may 2008 be for you a healthy and prosperous New Year.
