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Can we move beyond Carrie Prejean and Donald Trump now?  Seriously, this is what the news is focused on?  Torture, tanking economy, health care reform, Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan, and what we are talking about is this?  Seriously?  The only intelligent comments I can make on this circus, is that when you are in a public forum, and you are in the spotlight, you can say what you want, but you also have to be responsible and accountable for what you say.  When you are not responsible, then you get hit with a firestorm, and you should.  It is not about silencing people who speak from their heart, it is about integrity, honesty, and accountability.  It is not even about gay marriage because when you strip away the Christian rhetoric, I do not believe this young woman would have another reason.  And when it comes to law, Church and State are two separate entities and must be separated.  Once you start invoking God on any issue, I stop listening because that holds not weight.  And while so many of our relatives fought for freedom of speech, they fought for separation of Church and State, Civil Rights, the Right to Privacy, Equal Protection under the law, the list goes on and on.  Now can we get back to listening to rational and intelligent people on important issues?  Please.

Ah, the Holidays…..They are here in full force. I spent yesterday venturing out to the mall to get Christmas gifts. Now I know what you are going to say: It is the Saturday before Christmas, of course the stores are packed and you have to expect a certain amount of annoyance to accompany your shopping experience. And you are right to advise me of that. But still, I can not help but say what I need to say: I hate the Holidays. The long lines, the picked over merchandise in stores, the crowds and the screaming kids. It makes for the most awful of events. Parents, if you kids are not well behaved and don’t want to be dragged from store to store, do us all a favor and leave them home. Get a babysitter. My biggest complaint this year is the myriad of screaming kids everywhere! Look if your son or daughter is prone to throwing temper tantrums, they really should not leave the house. I am of the school that children should be seen and not heard, and if I ever did in public what I have seen done, my parents would give me a good spanking. And they would be right! So please, please, please, I am begging you, leave your ill-mannered monsters at home.

Sorry that could not be helped. And no I don’t have kids, but I am smart enough to know that I should not reproduce the monstrosity that is me. But there are children that I do like and there are plenty of well behaved kids out there. And they can go shopping, but the constantly scremaing ones, I am not a fan of.

Okay, I have harped on that long enough. The Holidays. The commercialism, all of the fake happy people, all of the happy happy people, it is all too much for this lonely heart to bear. This year it seems even more unbearable than previous. When you are single, or just plain lonely, this time of year sucks. And the happy people of the world do not make it any better. It makes it that much worse. Yes, we can take comfort in our families who are obligated to love us anyway, but sleeping alone this time of year, is just awful. Now I am trying to find the real Christmas spirit, I really am. And I do love being around my family and seeing the holiday cheer spread around, but those moments when I am fighting the crowds and the nights when I am alone, it is terrible. And loneliness seems to cut even more this time of year. That is all I wanted to say. I feel for all of us out there who are going through the same things. I guess we can take comfort in the fact that in our lonlieness, we are not alone, because there are many of us out there, admittedly or not, who feel the same way.

So before I go and put a fake smile on my face, and pretend that I am in the holiday spirit, I just wanted to let out one last sigh, and say to all of the unhappy and miserable people out there: it is okay to not be happy this time of year. Take your misery and hug and hold it dear. Then put on the smile, be merry, and complain about it to anyone who will listen. Meeting of the Unhappy People Club and the People who Hate the Holidays Club adjourned.

Happy Holidays!