Holiday Trees

With all the hoopla over 'Holiday' Trees this season I just keeping thinking this is such a non-issue. I don't think the main intent of calling them that has ever been to keep from offending non-Christians but to sell them a darn tree!

It's a marketing thing not a religious onslaught. How many 'mixed' marriages are there now where the Christian partner wants a tree and the Jewish partner feels uncomfortable? Solution: call it a holiday tree and it's something everyone can live with. Pretty soon everyone wants a green tree and lots of colorful lights in one of the darkest months of the year, sales increase, SAD lessens, everyone's happy.

Sometimes it's just a cigar.