The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, November 29th, 1998
The way we do Christmas is enough to make you convert. By "We," I guess I mean Americans, or at least the folks I know, whose mailboxes groan this year under the weight of mail-order catalogs. I'm sure that others (those without TV, for example, or perhaps residents of neighboring galaxies) still keep Christmas as a simple, sweet festival. But many of us use it as an excuse to indulge those passions (for excess, for gluttony, for spending) that we keep in check the rest of the year. It's particularly repulsive that an orgy of trifles is intended to commemorate something rather humble: the bi...
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