Celebrating 'Dec. 25'.A year ago, Jay Nordlinger Jay Nordlinger is a U.S conservative journalist. He is the managing editor of National Review and also writes an irregular column for the magazine's website. He is frequently critical of the People's Republic of China’s Communist government and Fidel Castro's Cuba. wrote a piece called "December's C-Word" (Dec. 31, 2003), in which he discussed the tabooization of the word "Christmas." In the course of that piece, he mentioned what I had told him about my workplace, which lists all the holidays by name except Christmas. That, it calls "December 25th." Well, it's gotten really comical this year, when Christmas falls on a Saturday. The page of our internal website was changed to read, "December 25th (observed on December 24th in 2004)"! Name and location withheld Mr. Nordlinger complained of the difficulty of finding cards that say "Merry Christmas" (rather than "Happy Holidays," etc.). Well, my wife and I have been buying cards from the National Rifle Association National Rifle Association (NRA) Governing organization for the sport of shooting with rifles and pistols. It was founded in Britain in 1860. The U.S. organization, formed in 1871, has a membership of some four million. Both the British and the U.S. for the past few years. Besides offering beautiful traditional designs, they say "Christmas" unabashedly un·a·bashed adj. 1. Not disconcerted or embarrassed; poised. 2. Not concealed or disguised; obvious: unabashed disgust. . This year, we actually found a design that manages to get traditional Christmas decorations, an American flag, and "Merry Christmas" all in one card! Add that to the big "NRA NRA (National Rifle Association of America) organization that encourages sharpshooting and use of firearms for hunting. [Am. Pop. Culture: NCE, 1895] See : Hunting " printed on the back, and it's a liberal's nightmare. Colleen col·leen n. An Irish girl. [Irish Gaelic cailín, diminutive of caile, girl, from Old Irish. and Andrew Wharton Arlington, Mass. |
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