I’m sorry, I just have to post this link:  http://www.fuckchristmas.org/

Not only is it readable, despite the horrible language, but it contains some very enlightening links.  Many illuminating quotes from the defenders of Christmas (their way, dammit!)

In other news, from Salon.com: 

In a remarkably unequivocal decision Tuesday, a federal judge ruled that teaching intelligent design in public science classrooms in Dover, Pa., is prohibited by the constitutional separation of church and state. In the decision, Judge John E. Jones III declared that the school district’s claim that I.D. is a scientifically valid alternative to evolution is simply wrong. “Intelligent design is nothing less than the progeny of creationism,” he writes.

Thank goodness.