It’s gotten to that point in December where the incessant blasts of holiday music at work and elsewhere are starting to make me a little loopy. So this bit from No More Mr Nice Blog is particualrly apt:
The people who are complaining about the secularization of Christmas in contemporary America probably shouldn’t step into the Wayback Machine…
…looking into the past will not yield up any meaning of the Christmas holiday that most of us will recognize. The December date on the festive calendar two centuries ago was an occasion for public brawling by wandering crowds of inebriates.
Until Christmas was transformed in the 1830