Here’s a rerun of my 2008 Christmas post. Before you read it …<\/p>\n
VOTE FOR ME AT GRANT MILLER MEDIA!<\/a><\/p>\n If you don’t vote for me for me in all three of my categories — Blogger of the Year, Blog With the Most Overt Product or Service Endorsements, and Blog With the Most Swears — Santa will put coal in your stockings. Seriously, he will pull up your skirt, yank down your American Apparel tights and put coal in there. That will be really uncomfortable and messy. So vote<\/a>. And tell your friends, family, colleagues, enemies and frenemies to vote too.<\/p>\n Okay, now you can read my Dec. 24, 2008, post:<\/p>\n Every December 25, I get into the holiday spirit by reminiscing about an idiot I knew in my freshman year of college. This self-described born-again Christian once went into a rant about the secularization of Christmas as symbolized by the use of “Xmas.” She thought that evil secular people had X’d the “Christ” out of Christmas. She didn’t know that the Greek letter “X” — the first letter in the Greek spelling of “Christ” — has been used as shorthand for “Christ” for centuries<\/a>. No one X’d the Christ out of Christmas; X IS<\/span> Christ, for Jebus’s sake! (If you want more info about the X factor, here’s an Xian’s explanation <\/a>for fellow Xians.)<\/em><\/p>\n Anyway, here some things I wish I could say to my long-ago acquaintance in honor of the holiday.<\/em><\/p>\n\n