Bookworm Beat 12/24/25: The Merry Christmas edition
Merry Christmas! Let’s be jolly this year, because Trump is doing great things. And these, I’m happy to say, are great memes!
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New Year’s Eve & the 7th Day of Christmas
Why do we celebrate the New Year on January 1 when, for most of recorded history, we held the New Year to start in March? What role did the Catholic and Anglican celebrations of Christmas play in the creation of our modern New Year’s Eve celebration on Dec. 31? Answers
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Merry Christmas & Happy Hannukah
A Merry 1st Day of Christmas and a Happy Last Day of Hannukah to you and your families from Bookie and Wolfie, this being the Christian World’s 1,696th celebration of the Birth of Jesus Christ, & the Jewish World’s 2,187th celebration of Hannukah. They go well together. Luke 2:11-12: For
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A Merry Christmas from our friend March Hare
March Hare has been a long-time friend to this blog, for she always leaves comments that are interesting, informed, and very humanist (in a good way, not a leftist “secular humanist” way). This year, March Hare shared a poem with me and with all of you to remind us that,
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It’s time for my version of a Christmas post
2020’s agonies make it more important than ever that I count my blessings — and sharing America’s Christmas spirit is a very big blessing. Every year, I post my favorite Christmas song, which is Josh Groban’s live version of O Holy Night. This has been a strange year but I’m
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The overwhelming conservativism of two non-religious Christmas classics
I celebrated Christmas this year by watching Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town and Die Hard, and was stunned by how deeply conservative each of those shows is. Anything that comes out of Hollywood today, especially when it comes to children’s media, is preachy: Whether the message is overt or
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History, Holidays & Observances on December 17
Today: Saturnalia, Sol Invictus & the history of Christmas; France recognizes America during the Revolution; Grant, orders the Jews expelled with General Order No. 11, Christmas Music And More . . . December Holidays of Ancient Rome – Saturnalia, Sol Invictus, & Christmas The “bleak midwinter,” that being the time
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Bookworm Beat 12/10/18 — the Christmas Song illustrated edition
Nothing says Christmas like Leftists going crazy over a Christmas song, plus a whole lot more in superb political and social posters.
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From the People’s Cube, NYT’s coverage at Christ’s birth
I have nothing to add here beyond telling you to click on the image to enlarge so as to get the full glory of a Leftist view of Christ’s birth. Hat tip: Wolf Howling
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As Adam Said . . .
As Adam said . . . . . . to his wife, several millennia less one day ago, “Hey, it’s Christmas, Eve.” What better way to celebrate than with Christmas songs? So with that intro, a few Christmassy things for your enjoyment Ms. BWR’s favorite, written in 1943, at the
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Bookworm Beat 12/24/16 — a Christmas round-up of posters on current issues
To begin, a reminder that, because patriots of old were willing to spend an unusually cold Christmas day in 1776 crossing an ice-filled river, hiking on freezing country roads, and fighting, all while ill-clothed and ill-shod, America got the best Christmas gift of all: LIBERTY. And now back to our
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Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!
(Please note the patriotic details in each. They seem appropriate as we welcome a new administration that really seems to love this country.)
Continue readingThe Bookworm Beat 12/6/14 — Saturday sweep-up edition, and Open Thread
A cold has been making the rounds in my neighborhood and it finally caught up with me. I don’t feel particularly ill, but I feel congested and quite desperately sleepy. I had a great deal to do today, and mostly managed to re-read Agatha Christie’s Mrs. McGinty’s Dead, which wasn’t
Continue readingThe Bookworm Beat 12/4/14 — Plumber days and party nights edition (and Open Thread)
I spent a large part of my day hanging around waiting for the plumber to come and, once he came, hanging around while he did his thing. Surprisingly (for me, at least), this is not a complaint. I’m fortunate enough to have found a wonderful plumber (Marin residents can email
Continue readingBarack Obama: muddle headed multiculturalist
I may not be Christian, but I know this much about Christmas: it’s a holy day that celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ. I also know that those who believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God and mankind’s savior call themselves, not coincidentally, Christians. See, it’s a package
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