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There are those who don’t like it want to have themselves a merry little Christmas, those for whom it’s not the most wonderful on occasion of the year, who’d rather doff their gay apparel and don’t give a figgy pudding about godlike cheer, who endure the holiday season cringing all the way, fa la la blah, blah, blah.
They aren’t shrivel-hearted, anti-Christmas Scrooges, per se. They ethical blanch at the season’s incessant and enforced cheeriness, the assault on the senses and, yeah, the checking account. They ruminate on it the season of stress as much as sharing — crass and commercial on the one give, leadenly pious and overly sentimental on the other.
“The thing is, Christmas is inescapable,” said Joe Garden, features leader-writer of the Onion, the satirical newspaper and website. “If you’re an American, you can’t go bottoms up a surface off Christmas. You can pass by other holidays and go, ‘Oh, was it May Day? I totally forgot.
Source: San Francisco Luxury News