Tag Archives: Xmas

In a holiday piece written for Business Review, Richard Fausta recommends that companies keep Christmas music and Christianity-themed decorations to a minimum because there will likely be people of other faiths in the office.  Pretty standard advice, right? Not according to Catholic League blowhard Bill Donohue. I asked our vice president about this. We can’t relate to that, Bernadette Brady …

Two of the members of the popular acapella group Pentatonix are openly gay, including the lead vocalist on their new holiday track, which already has over one million views on YouTube.  The group has also recorded a PSA for the Trevor Project.

Following up on last week’s “Naughty Or Nice” list of retailers who do or do not used the word “Christmas” in their advertising, today the American Family Association launched a boycott of those Satanists at all three GAP chains. But as Good As You blogger Jeremy Hooper again pointed out today, the AFA continues to ignore the pesky fact that …

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Today the American Family Association issued its annual boycott list of companies that are “against Christmas” because they use the word “holiday” in their advertising. On the naughty list: Banana Republic, Barnes & Noble, Family Dollar, Foot Locker, Gap Stores, L.L. Bean, Limited Brands, Maurice’s, Office Depot, Old Navy, Radio Shack, Staples, Supervalue, and Victoria’s Secret. Oh, but what’s that …

I’m not much for Xmas celebrations, but I never missed the SFGMC’s holiday show at the Castro Theater. Get tickets here.

Courtesy of the Karpel Group, today’s Swag Tuesday prizes are the two holiday releases from Everything But The Girl vocalist Tracy Horn and the popular indie duo, She & Him. A Very She & Him Christmas is a wonderful collection of holiday tunes from two of music’s most impressive artists Zooey Deschanel (She) & M. Ward (Him). Inspired by seminal …

Boy Culture blogger Matthew Rettenmund tells me the artwork was just added to ONJ’s Facebook page.

The eight year-old watched dispassionately as Uncle Joe assembled his gift. Then he played inside for five minutes. Then he returned to the couch where he is surrounded by his Nook, his iPod, his Wii, his DS3, etc etc etc. When it stops raining I’ll drag the tent into the backyard and see if that spurs any interest.

Is this thing on? What with the funky weekend holidays this year, who’s working this week?

This story makes its eighth annual appearance on JMG….Grand Central Terminal functions as the mechanical heart of midtown New York City, pumping out several thousand workers and tourists on one beat, then sucking in several thousand more on the next. The rhythms of the terminal are fascinating. Beat. Four thousand, inbound from New Haven. Beat. Three thousand, outbound to Westchester. …

When I was two months old my grandmother gave me my first Xmas card, which my mom still hangs on her tree.

World Net Daily whines: Christmas carolers are thrown out of a U.S. Post Office. The U.S. military apologizes for promoting a Christian-based charity and relief program providing holiday gifts to poor children. Across the country, Christmas lights, Christmas trees and menorahs are banned in public areas. Atheists and “free-thinkers” sue cities into submission, forcing removal of all things ‘Christ’ on …

Is this thing on? Anybody working today?