. . . Christmas with an essay about that always-popular yuletide subject, untested rape kits. This keeps alive the paper's almost flawless record of refusing to acknowledge, much less participate in, the common rituals of civic life that help define American, Texan, and Houstonian culture: Christmas, the Fourth of July, and all in between. The Chronicle reserves editorials about civic holidays for truly mainstream events, such as . . .
. . . this one.
No credit for the newspaper's recent spate of Thanksgiving editorials, the main point of which seems to be that the Clever Ones give thanks (to Gaia, I suppose) that they are not like the rest of us.
The second editorial of December 25 had a drive-by Christmas theme. It celebrated, not the season, but the coincidental dissolution of the Soviet Union ten Christmases ago. Bah humbug on that limp excuse for a true editorial on the day.
The paper deserves partial credit, however, for the last two words in the essay: "Merry Christmas." Surely the politically incorrect perpetrator has been disciplined.
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