Maria's Day by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for December 20, 2012

why get a tree? get one of those artificial ones. better yet, get a modern art sculpture.

every time I go out and someone says Happy Holiday I say Merry Christmas. Most of them will thank me and say it back. It is so sad that Christmas has been pushed to the side in order to NOT offend someone, well you know what? It offends me to have someone say happy holidays instead of Merry CHRISTMAS. Have a super good day everyone and MERRY CHRISTMAS.

This poor slob bowed to social pressure.

NO ONE has a problem with Merry Christmas, including people who don’t celebrate it. This is a ridiculous misconception. The reason we now say “Happy Holidays” is to be inclusive, not to erase Christmas, but to include all of the other celebrations and holidays this time of year. Say whatever you want, just say it nice and the sentiment gets relayed to its recipient.

Well said, piksea!! Today’s comic is totally off the mark, suggesting an “issue” where there is none. At least none beyond whatever trumped up gripe the self-righteous Right wants to pretend is foisted upon them by the imaginary “far Left”

oo you got me started now. ;-) because this is exactly how they (the self-righteous Right) do it, too. Of their own free will, they hang some controversy inciting sign, then when questioned about it, claim they were forced to do so by the Left, when really the rest of us out there could not care less about their petty, angry issues.

Political correctness gone mad. All that’s needed is a bit of tolerance and an agreement to disagree.

Rubbish back atya. Canada Day is not generally celebrated in the US. Hannuka(?), Kwanzaa, and Solstice ARE. So instead of "Merry Christmas, Happy Hannuka, etc, some people CHOOSE to wish everyone Happy Holidays. I pesonally say Merry Christmas, but that’s just me. Aunt Dot (Jewish) never minded.

Funny, I’ve never seen a Hannukah or Kwaanza tree, but I have nevertheless seen numerous state and local governments insist on using the term “Holiday Tree”.

If that were the case, it’d probably be a lot more slanted. No money under the table that I’m aware of.

Has it occurred to anyone that the term “Happy Holidays” precedes political correctness, and may have originally been meant to include New Year’s Day? Fact: there are people who do not celebrate Christmas. Fact: Even so, US culture, such as it is, grew out of a Christian tradition. For good or bad, it just did.

Yes, people of many faiths have swelled our ranks, and we’ve become multi cultural. But we have a bad habit of viewing history solely through the lens of current moral standards. “Happy Holidays” did not originate as an attack, nor as an obfuscation. Blind and insensitive? Call it that if you must, but it began with uncluttered intentions.

Interestingly, the late John Hartford recorded a song in the late 60’s/ early 70’s that could pass for ‘country rap.’ It wasn’t released until years later, but it was ahead of its time.

You people get way to offended about not being offended about christmas.

It’s not right, Jews can say Happy Hannaka, African Americans can say Happy Kwaanza, but the rest of us can’t say Merry Christmas. I seem to recall something about freedom of speach in the Constitution.