Merry Christmas Holidays!

     I'd like to take this Christmas Eve to wish each and every one of my readers -- yes, even the ones who send me angry and/or snarky comments -- the happiest of winter holidays, whichever one(s) they celebrate.  Merry Christmas, Happy Hannukah, Joyful Kwanzaa, best solstice wishes* and so on: Happy holidays!
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* The solstice has been and gone on the 21st, but it's the thought that counts.  The fact that the solstice falls so close to these winter holidays is no accident: the turning of the year has been important to humans for as long as we've been humans and we are darned well going to mark it.  It's an open feast: more holiday for the other guy doesn't mean any less for you.  Get out the good dinnerware and dig in!