babble home
rabble.ca - news for the rest of us
today's active topics


  
FAQ | Forum Home
  next oldest topic   next newest topic
» babble   » archived babble   » rabble columns   » Salutin - Have a sneery Christmas

Email this thread to someone!    
Author Topic: Salutin - Have a sneery Christmas
Michelle
Moderator
Babbler # 560

posted 25 December 2005 09:17 AM      Profile for Michelle   Author's Homepage     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
quote:
It's been a good year for obnoxious on TV, a quality whose value rises as Christmas approaches with its sentimentality, or schmaltz, to slightly multiculturalize the reference. Sentimentality often contains its own inoculations, like Scrooge, or the Grinch. Herod tried to strangle the first Christmas in its cradle; Antiochus was the Grinch of Hanukkah etc. This year, we are blessed, i.e. cursed, with an election, seeding the season with meanness.

Rick Salutin


From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001  |  IP: Logged
Fidel
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 5594

posted 25 December 2005 11:59 PM      Profile for Fidel     Send New Private Message      Edit/Delete Post
It's like an old childrens cartoon, Looney Tunes, with Pete Puma and Bugs Bunny. Pete keeps asking for three or four lumps of sugar for his tea but then is on the receiving end of an equal number of wooden mallet whacks over his noggin. It's a sick cartoon really but so true of Canadian choices. Just thought I'd share that.
From: Viva La Revolución | Registered: Apr 2004  |  IP: Logged

All times are Pacific Time  

   Close Topic    Move Topic    Delete Topic next oldest topic   next newest topic
Hop To:

Contact Us | rabble.ca | Policy Statement

Copyright 2001-2008 rabble.ca