Whatever Works

THERE IS STILL hope that black Friday and cyber Monday will not overtake Christmas Day itself as the most prominent day during the Christmas season. Capitalism and Christianity continue their strange but effective entwinement, as only Americans can achieve. Joshua ben Joseph was probably born,oh, when...'long about the first week in April? Even as holidays evolve, they serve the same eternal purpose; to provide inspiration, community, and organization to the herd. So, add an evergreen tree, move the birth date, throw in some online shopping, and the net result, the basic idea, remains. One can even enter a Catholic or an Episcopalian church, and take communion, and one can tell one's self that the communion is of the soul, of the mind, and not of the blood and body. Whatever works.