Here we go again

About this time last year, I commented on the 'War on Christmas.' Well, like the rash after that weekend in Vegas, it still hasn't gone away.

I don't have anything new to say on the matter, except that there's a certain faction of these 'Christmas warriors' that seriously rub me the wrong way. They're the people that boycott stores that don't utter the phrase 'Merry Christmas.'

Really?

I've got no problem with people, or stores for that matter, wishing me a "Merry Christmas" even though I don't celebrate it. But I do have a problem with people who are angry that stores don't wish them a "Merry Christmas." That's just asinine. Heaven forbid an establishment wouldn't just assume that everyone wants to be wished a "Merry Christmas."

Is "Season's Greetings" too offensive? What about "Happy Holidays"? Are we really going to start pitching fits when stores don't acknowledge our holidays exactly the way we want them to? When did Americans become so whiny? (And why am I asking so many rhetorical questions?)