Fun Facts From Zach's Almanac: Psycho Santas and going on about it.

From the Associated Press (AP) Story/DAVID B. CARUSO Photo/KATHY WILLENS
Murderous Santa Display Outside Manhattan Mansion Draws Stares
NEW YORK Dec 13, 2005 — It's usually easy to tell where a person stands in the culture wars, but whose side is someone on when his Christmas decor is a blood-spattered Santa Claus holding a severed head?

Joel Krupnik and Mildred Castellanos decked the front of their Manhattan mansion this year with a scene that includes a knife-wielding 5-foot-tall St. Nick and a tree full of decapitated Barbie dolls. Hidden partly behind a tree, the merry old elf grasps a disembodied doll's head with fake blood streaming from its eye sockets.

No one answered the family's door to explain on Tuesday, but Krupnik told the New York Post it was a statement about the commercialization and secularization of Christmas.

"Christmas has religious origins," he said. "It's in the Bible. Santa is not in the Bible. He's not a religious symbol."

The family is far from the only one making an editorial comment this year on how Americans celebrate Christmas…

And that's exactly the problem folks!
It isn't so much that someone has depicted Santa as a character out of some B movie like The North Pole Chainsaw Massacre, it's that everyone feels compelled to make a comment, write an editorial, express themselves over every little issue that catches their attention.
Isn't that why there are so many people who are driven to blog and convey every blessed thing that occurs to their tiny, little minds? To publish every arcane opinion and blossoming scrap of thought that runs through their sorry and troubled cerebrum just on that slim chance that someone will hear their mewling and in some way validate their isolated, pathetic existence...??
Um-m-m, wait a minute, here. Hold on, now...
Isn't that exactly what I'm...
...Uh, never mind, Ok?