One More Whale Liver Smoothie for Jesus!

Since it’s Christmas, I wanted to share a hilarious “screed” from commentator James Lileks, who takes a few well-aimed swipes at a Canadian National Post series about people who hate Christmas. “You don’t lose any points in a modern Western newsroom suggesting that the paper run profiles on people who hate Christmas,” Lileks points out. “Float the notion of profiling lapsed Muslims who hold Ramadan in bemused contempt, and I suspect people would react as though you had pushed a ball of tinfoil into one of their dental fillings.”

The National Post article in question focuses on a British Columbia couple that bought a public billboard displaying the motto: “Gluttony. Envy. Insincerity. Greed. Enjoy Your Christmas.” Lileks sarcastically responds: “I’m sure that all over this wretched land, gouty zeppelin-bellied men will stagger to their feet, raise a glass and shout ONE MORE WHALE LIVER SMOOTHIE FOR JESUS!” The Canadian couple also slams Santa for being a “white, heterosexual man who overeats”, and whines about the “religious exclusivity of Christmas.” (“Imagine that,” responds Lileks, “a religious holiday that