The Winter Holiday That Dare Not Speak Its Name

It's astonishing how much hoopla there is about "winter" this year!

I've never been all that motivated to mark the changing of each new season with gift-giving, yet the stores seem to be packed with people buying stuff for other people, all in the name of the "winter" season.

There are signs everywhere you look mentioning the "season" (as if we don't get a new season every three months!), and there seem to be snowflake images everywhere.  What, is everyone buying snowblowers and ice scrapers to celebrate winter this year? 

Not only that, but my kids are being sent home from school because of this "winter" thing.  If this is what they do to observe winter, I shudder to think how long they'll be sent home to celebrate "spring."  And don't even get me started on the way they worship "summer" in the schools.

Everyone keeps offering me "Season's Greetings."  But do we really need special "season's" greetings?  What's so profound about "winter" that I can't use the same greetings I've used all year?

I look around the internet and I see that Old Navy has "Season's Savings" and Banana Republic has a "Winter Sale"; Macy's has a "Last-Minute Gift Sale"(what's the rush?); Costco's website says "Order Your Last Gift Now!" (which sounds not only rushed but a little Grim Reaper-ish); and Saks has a "Holiday Gift Guide," again with the snowflakes. 

I'm getting tired of snowflakes.  They seem cold somehow.

Honestly, doesn't this worship of winter seem a bit overdone?

Or is there some special holiday that nobody is mentioning?

Maybe I'd better read this column by Thomas Sowell and try to figure out what is going on:  Merry You-Know-What.

Oh, and before I forget:  "Season's Greetings."

Hope it's special.

I really, really do.

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More winter reading:  The Politburo Diktat, Michelle Malkin here and here, and Theodore's World.

Tags:  war on christmas, christmas

Comments

[Wild Thing]

Thanks for the link and Merry Christmss.