The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for December 24, 2022

and a stable place to settle down.

You need to speak to the Manger.

Silent Night!

They don’t even need that star – it’s more for some other guys.

Besides she brought (is carrying) the real Star with her.

there was a pregnant pause before she replied…

Give Tom Bodett a call. He’ll leave the light on for you.

One star. The highest rating ever.

Good one.

Star light, star bright…..

Nice

Yule be fine.

OK – for all of you who claim the Bible is factual: According to the “evidence” in the gospels (returning to Bethlehem for the census, etc.), if Yehoshua ben Yosef (your guy’s actual name) was, in fact, born (which is by no means a sure thing), it was in June. The December 25 thing was announced to help force Northern Europeans into Catholicism by co-opting their existing Winter Solstice rites – gifts, decorated trees, etc. And I realize that a tendency to believe that poorly-written fiction is history could well correlate with a belief that the stars move around a geocentric sky, but that is just not the case.

You can add to that the fact that there are at least 5 other traditions featuring sun gods born around the Winter Solstice, then killed & resurrected around the Vernal Equinox – and all of them predate Christian mythology. So not only is it bad fiction, it’s plagiarized bad fiction.

Not biblically accurate (doesn’t mean it couldn’t be true.)

Merry Christmas everyone

That’s all we need.

Merry Christmas to all who observe and happy holidays and best wish’s to those that observe something else!

Someones been making Mary. (I know. I’ll let myself out.)

At this time of year, I enjoy rereading The Star, a classic science fiction tale by Arthur C. Clarke.

Nobody cares tonight.

Hopefully the Falafel Hut delivers.