My oh my. I was getting ready to write today about how I went to a kind of Festival of Trees on Saturday night -- different companies decorated trees and you wandered around enjoying them and eating funnel cakes while the kiddies rode past on a train. Quite fun. I was impressed that there were several prominent "Merry Christmas" signs and the music they were piping through carried songs I would clarify as actually Christmas-oriented instead of Happy Holi-daisy. It was a pleasant surprise since I'm so used to the toning down of Christmas in public events.

But never fear, the pc police are on the move. This morning I read that Chicago had booted New Line Cinema from being a sponsor at their German Christkindlmarket. They were concerned non-Christians going to a Christmas festival would be offended by a repeating trailer for the movie The Nativity Story. The final quote was from a New Line representative and just cracked me up:

"One would assume that if (people) were to go to Christkindlmarket, they'd know it is about Christmas."