Baseball fanatics look at Fellers amazing career stats, which I'm not going to replicate here, and wonder what might have been had he not felt compelled to go to war. Stats be damned, Feller did the right thing. This is the point in the article where I'm supposed to go on about how celebrities from sports, Hollywood or wherever have declined from those days, but I don't want to bore you saying what others have said before, and better. And some readers might wonder why I'm not eulogizing Richard Holbrooke for his services to the country, thinking that they must have been greater in the aggregate. I'll leave that to others, because in honesty I haven't followed his career as closely as probably I should have.
Gee, don't strain yourself.
Collins begins the next graf with a reference to Larry Summers that's even more of a non sequitur with nowhere to go. Collins' writing is even more slapdash here than it is at his own site, which I won't link to, since I know it's more than some of you can bear.
RightNetwork is also providing refuge for the knuckled brow that goes by the name of "Joe the Plumber," once the great white hope of common-sense Americans--i.e., fatheads--and now reduced to maundering about wishing people "Merry Christmas" as if that makes him special and marginally defiant.
I grew up in an America that celebrated Christmas without guilt. As a kid, Christmas meant beautiful twinkling lights, garlands, Santa Claus, Christmas trees and the anticipation of long yearned for presents. It makes me smile just thinking of those days.
But now that Hallmark Channel smile masks gritted teeth.
Unfortunately we have people in this country that want to take away Joy, Love, Cheer, Compassion, Christmas and my GOD given rights under the guise of their bitter, grinchlike ?Political Correctness.?
In Ashland , Oregon they?ve decided that a Christmas tree by itself won?t be allowed because it might be seen as a religious symbol. This is complete nonsense foisted on us all by a few who have not only abandoned a joyous celebration but common sense and reason itself.
AND I SAY NO!
I will not hide my Christmas lights under a bushel. I will not stop saying Merry Christmas.
You go, girl!
It's not as if he runs some major risk of a rumble. My impression is that the phony 'War Against Christmas' seems much more low-intensity this season, people having finally gotten bored with the whole thing. In Manhattan, shoppers wish each other "Happy holidays," "Merry Christmas," and "Could you please move out of the way? I'm trying to get by" fairly interchangeably without it becoming op-ed material. The rest of the country should emulate us, and stop whining.
*On one of Bob Hope's old radio broadcasts, Hope (a part owner of the Cleveland Indians) boasts to a Hollywood starlet that he's also known as "Rapid Robert," to which she drawls, "Yes, but for different reasons."
Source: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/12/not-hardly-trying.html
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