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On the other, you have frenzied members of the Culture Warrior Right, looking for opportunities to be offended<\/a> with all the zeal of Jesse Jackson in full racial offensitivity mode.<\/p>\n

Me:\u00a0 I just want to wish everybody a Merry Christmas\u2013except the Christmas Inquisitors.\u00a0 Them, I will wish \u201cHappy Holidays\u201d just to teach them to lighten up.<\/p>\n

And to all the zealots on both ends of the Christmas Wars spectrum, here\u2019s my Christmas present<\/a>.\u00a0 It was handmade by me and everything!<\/p>\n

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