I’m sure you’ve read by now about the whole kerfluffle Dubya’s power-base is giving him over the “Christmas”-less holiday card. In reading about it in the Chronicle, I came across a rather surprising - or maybe not so much - quote from one of these people upset with such “insensitivity” that managed to disgust me even more (despite my belief that it wasn’t possible):

[William Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights] was not mollified by a letter from Lands’ End [regarding his group’s boycott of their “Christmas”-less advertising] saying it “adopted the ‘holiday’ terminology as a way to comply with one of the basic freedoms granted to all Americans: freedom of religion.”

“Ninety-six percent of Americans celebrate Christmas,” Donohue said. “Spare me the diversity lecture.”

Got that, all you Americans who don’t celebrate Christmas? You don’t matter.