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• Cain campaign might want to try ‘Blank Stare’ approach:

  Herman Cain’s handlers in his bid for the GOP presidential nomination should look at today’s comic strips and consider “The Blank Stair Campaign.” The idea came to me today after my wife and I were reading a book about William McKinley’s 1896 “Front Porch Campaign.”

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• Revisiting Christmas past — Is there really a ‘war’ on Christmas?:

  It’s time for me to revisit “Christmas Past,” to borrow or misuse a phrase from Charles Dickens, and update some comments I made about the Christmas holiday season.

  When I wrote that original post, I was trying to point out some of the absurdities overly zealous Christians were making about the simple choice of wishing people “Happy Holiday(s)” instead of “Merry Christmas.” I pointed out (go ahead, click and read the original post; I’ll wait for you to come back here) that the original meaning and nature of the word “holiday” came from “holy day” and could be a perfectly harmless, legitimate greeting along with “Merry Christmas.” I also pointed out that our Puritan “founding fathers,” so often pseudo-worshipped by many fundamentalist Christians and conservatives these days, actually had some pretty severe anti-Christmas laws.

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• How about we all try getting by with less ‘stuff’ in our lives?:

  OK, so this is my little “sermonette” (or just a rant?) for today: Maybe our nation and our world would be in better shape all around if we just all tried to get through life with less “stuff,” i.e., material possessions in general and luxury items specifically.

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• Be mindful of Internet credibility gaps and traps:

  When you’re browsing to and fro throughout the Internet, you should always be mindful of some real “credibility gaps” inherent in what you find. Not everything on the Internet is actually true — some of it (to swipe Stephen Colbert’s term) isn’t even very “truthy.”

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