Why We Fight
"30,000 retards, idiots, consumer whores, and knuckledraggers push and shove their way into the Boise Town Square mall for 10% off over priced T-shirts." Thanks to ELB for the tip.
Official Blog of the Christmas Resistance Movement
The San Francisco Chronicle's front-page story yesterday had a large bold headline of the sort used to announce a war victory, for an article about insane shoppers knocking themselves out on "Black Friday." Here are the opening lines:
The get-up-and-go spirit that helped America settle the West, win two world wars and put a man on the moon isn't dead. It's just gone to the mall.It took four Chronicle staff writers to pen this drivel.
=v= It's out just in time for the Xmas Resistance Non-Shopping Season: What Would Jesus Buy? is a documentary about Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping, who last year went on a nationwide tour to the heart of the nation's Shopocalypse.Thanks to the diligent efforts of Elf Thumper, xmasresistance.org is back online. Enjoy! And don't forget, the Movement is about Channukah and Kwanzaa too - everyone's welcome.
Some Fox News employee has published a book about some sort of "War on Christmas." Apparently he's unhappy about the kind of things a Fox News employee would be unhappy about. The book echoes sentiments from the John Birch Society in the 1950s ("Where's Baby Jesus? The Commies got him!") which were themselves minor rehashes of screeds written by Henry Ford and his ilk in the 1920s ("Where's Baby Jesus? The Jews kidnapped him!")
Let's get a spam-free start this 2005 Resistance season with this brand-new comment space. Rant and rave away!
Another Christmas Resistance season has passed, finally. Nothing to worry about until next year's Buy Everything Day!
So we're seeing all sorts of comments about Mercury and Saturn in the Comments posting and also in the Mailbag. Where did this come from? I don't remember any mention of these two fellas in previous years.
Some very very rich carolers came by and sang this to us:
Hello fellow resisters,