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Rand Paul would like to wish you a Happy Festivus. So far he appears to be the only candidate to have recognized this Most Holy of days. It’s a war on Festivus!

It will be a very gay Festivus at the Florida Capitol Building this year: The Florida Department of Management Services on Thursday approved an application by Deerfield Beach political blogger Chaz Stevens to set up the display to honor the Festivus “holiday,” agency spokeswoman Natalee Singleton said. Stevens’ application for his 2015 “Rainbow gay edition” display — a 6-foot-6-inch pole …

Arkansas Matters reports: A Florida man applied on Monday afternoon to place a “Gay Pride Festivus Pole” at the state Capitol grounds in Little Rock. Executive Director for the Humanity Fund Chaz Stevens said he sent in an Arkansas Secretary of State Temporary Display application around 1 p.m. on Monday. Stevens said that he erected his first Festivus pole in …

Feel free to air your grievances.

Earlier today I posted a clip of the folks at Fox News freaking out about this. Here’s the report from the Associated Press: A Festivus pole made of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer cans is on display at the Capitol across the rotunda from a Nativity scene. Chaz Stevens of Deerfield Beach put up his 6-foot-tall pole Wednesday, an act that …

Mediaite recaps: On Tuesday afternoon, the Fox News-led War on Christmas™ made its way into the studios of Fox News itself, with Gretchen Carlson, Catholic League president Bill Donohue, and Rabbi Shmuley Boteach tag-teaming American Atheists president David Silverman over some rather unique displays being put up in state capitals across the country; one a Satanist display, the other a …

Air your grievances, please. We’ll save the feats of strength for the cocktail hour.

“The tradition of Festivus begins with the Airing of Grievances. I got a lot of problems with you people! And now, you’re gonna hear about it.” (Festivus en Espanol.)

As the grinchiest Grinch that ever grinched out of Grinchtown, allow me to wish you a Happy Festivus. I don’t own any holiday decorations, of course, but I’m allowing the steam pipe in my kitchen to stand in as a Festivus Pole. And now, the Airing Of Grievances…

Staying on the ecumenical tip, the world’s first Festivus Pole lot is doing business in Milwaukee. “I got a lot of problems with you people! And now, you’re gonna hear about it.” And after that, the feats of strength.