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...conspiracy. Since the 1990s, a right-wing website has held an annual competition for the most egregious example of secularization. (Villains include the Department of Housing and Urban Development, which christened its year-end party "A Celebration of Holiday Traditions.") But it was really during this decade that the Yule Wars caught fire. Fox News host John Gibson's book The War on Christmas hit best-seller lists in 2005, the same year his colleague Bill O'Reilly called moves to tone down the holidays the first steps on a slippery slope toward "legalization of narcotics, euthanasia, abortion at will...
...Tuxedo or gown: You’ll want to attend Harvard’s swank formals, which are like prom—or the Yule ball from “Harry Potter.” Come prepared and avoid Cambridge’s steep prices. Buy one now so you’ll get a return on your investment...
...This holiday season, Log lore has a new wrinkle: Chicago-based cable network WGN America has re-recorded a new version of the holiday classic for broadcast nationwide. Yule Log: The Golden Age of Christmas promises nine hours of freshly filmed, high-definition Yule Log merriment, from the office fireplace of former Tribune Co. President Colonel McCormick, accompanied by recordings of classic radio shows - including rarely-heard radio versions of holiday classics A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful Life (featuring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed reprising their film roles...
...Yule Log purists, though, it was as if WGN America tried to sell New Coke. In response to a CBS Sunday Morning video comparing the two yule logs, fans bombarded segment host Mo Rocca's blog with protests ("The person who wants the new yule log is a f**king loser and an communist. He should get fired from his job. Merry Christmas," one wrote). Sean Compton, WGN's Senior Vice President for Programming Entertainment, received email complaints as well. "I'm getting attacked," he says. "I had 10 emails this morning, and I don't know how they...
...entirely a fair comparison to WGN: While the national cable network plans to run the Golden Age of Christmas special, local affiliates like New York's WPIX will still air their traditional Yule Log programming. And in the spirit of the season, WGN announced Dec. 22 that, in the wake of the complaints, it would follow its Christmas Eve broadcast of the new Yule Log with a Christmas Day showing of the original. For those keeping score, that's almost ten and a half hours of festive holiday combustion - and for fans of Fred Thrower's original inspiration...