So it’s Christmas—my Christmas—my secular day;The Supreme Court decided it must be that way.As a secular holiday, Christmas can stay,With department-store Santa Claus, there on display,Or with Rudolph, or some other TV cliché,And your photograph taken in front of the sleigh. If you want, you can use this occasion to pray;Even atheists know such behavior’s …
Category Archive: christmas
Dec 24 2007
An atheist Christmas
We’ll all open presents, and cook a big dinner,And share in traditions we learned long agoBut Christmas is different for this humble sinner,No “birth of the saviour”, just people we know. It has nothing to do with a babe in a mangerOr kings being led by a star up above,But rather in family, friend, and …
Dec 15 2007
It was Cephalopodmas…
It was Cephalopodmas, and all through the blogsNot a writer was stirring—all sleeping like logs.Each blogosphere-dweller, from Orac to PZWas all bundled up and just taking it easy.Their prone, sleeping forms, that might well have been graniteSlept through the most wonderful tale on the planet!For all ‘cross the globe, from the oceans and seas,All the …
Nov 26 2007
A Squidmas Carol
Now… I am not, technically, a fan of Squidmas; I have always preferred the more inclusive Cephalopodmas, myself. But some shiftless bum who goes by the name “shiftlessbum” asked nicely, on Pharyngula, if I could “pen a Squidmas carol”. So here is the first. First thing–it is not a poem, it is a song; if …
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Nov 29 2007
A song for the season
christmas, Politics, social commentary
by Cuttlefish
Said the Little Boy to the Working MomDo you see what I see?Cable channel three-seventeen—Do you see what I see?A toy! A toy! A laser-action gunIt will bring me hours of funIt will bring me hours of fun! Said the Working Mom to the Absent DadDo you hear what I hear?Listen to your son, Absent …
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