What is the Christmas spirit? One definition has to do with the supernatural and since December 25 was a Druid religious observance day it makes sense to say spirit. Another definition is to get people to feel better and to go out and spend, spend, spend on gifts 61% of people don’t want.

What happened to “Peace on Earth, Good will towards men?” Wow, is that anachronistic! Even Star Trek changed its “Where no man has gone before” to “No one had gone before.” Maybe we need a new greeting in the Christmas spirit.

Continuing that goal, did anyone notice our President lit the National Tree and then ripped into several people a few hours later? An aside would be Lady Bird Johnson started a tradition of First Ladies to do a project for bettering America. Mrs. Trump’s project is to end cyber bullying. She really failed on that one. Perhaps she could provide the tar and feathers. I know I don’t have the goodwill spirit either.

Spending big on Christmas gifts is now presented as patriotic because three-fourths of our economy is based on you buying mostly unneeded things. Christmas is when you buy the most unneeded ones for people who may have bought the same unneeded item for you. I bet cars are lined up at Goodwill Industries store to drop off those unwanted gifts. Some people will keep them out of respect. We still have a pizza baking stone we got about 40 years ago. I thought about turning it into a lazy Susan but we already got two as gifts stored somewhere, still in their boxes. How do you get rid of something you never wanted or used because somebody thought you needed it or couldn’t think of anything worthwhile? That’s probably where “It’s the thought that counts” came from.

So be patriotic and buy junk to keep the trash collectors working!