Even for those of us who spent this day unofficially abstaining from the holiday because we were incapacitated by the flu-from-hell, it's important to remember that celebrating the birth of Christ isn't about Christian propaganda, or retail business, or corporate America, or even about continuing the tradition of deluding your children into believing in some old white overeating fat man who delivers gifts to white middle and upper class children. The real truth about Christmas is that it's about re-birth and humility and hope. I can be rejected from all the fancy jobs, and people and parties, but I can still be reborn in my humble little apartment. And we are all kings and queens here, born to save each other from our own fruitless ambitions for those same loveless jobs and parties and people.

I am reborn anew on Christmas Day!