Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: BLANK FRIDAY I’m not certain it actually pays To be part of the Black Friday craze. Am I first in the store? No, I’m at the wrong door — After camping out 25 days. From the …
Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: MISADVENTURE If these weeks must be spent at the mall, Baskets bulging with kitsch big and small; Christmas prelude must be A nonstop shopping spree, Do we miss the true gist of it all? From the …
Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: FAST FORWARD I remember with special delight How each holiday had its own rite: Now that commerce trumps living, We skip over Thanksgiving And start Christmas on Halloween night. From the archive: CHARGE! At Thanksgiving we …
Back in 1987 I came up with an ingenious way to remind yuletide revelers of the true meaning of Christmas: by rewriting the popular children’s verse that helped precipitate the commercialization of the holiday more than a century and a half ago. In “A Visit from St. Nick,” better known …
Ah, the madness of vulgarized Christmas! Disgusting, isn’t it? Jesus threw the money changers out of the temple. It’s up to us to rescue Christmas from the merchants. Feel free to publish, post, or pass on Your Weekly Politickle by F.R. Duplantier: CHARGE! At Thanksgiving we pull out the stopper …
