Crazy, mixed up world

What a world we live in! Supporters of this Tookie Williams character on death row at San Quentin want to see him nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. What B.S. that is! How sick can you get! I don't care what he wrote. His attempt to turn young people away from violence rings hollow. He killed four people and continues to associate with gangs in prison and some people have the gall to suggest he be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

Then we have the religious right complaining that some people, including President Bush, are taking the Christmas out of Christmas by substituting the word holiday for Christmas. Well, my friends, the words holidays and Christmas have always been interchangeable on Christmas cards and in verbal greetings but for someone in the Catholic League to complain about Bush's Christmas Card is hilarious. Most biblical scholars agree that Jesus of Nazareth was born in the springtime, not in December. The holiday we really celebrate is a pagan holiday from Europe, not the birth of Jesus. The esteemed Christas tree is pagan so there is nothing wrong with referring to it as a holiday tree but I doubt that anyone cares since it is now all about spending on an orgy of commercial excess. Even if Christ were born on the 25th of December, there hasn't been anything holy about this holiday for years. The corporate world has ruled the roost for years with rampant commercialism.