It’s becoming a new holiday tradition: complaining about people who allegedly complain about “Merry Christmas.” Yesterday, a story about a local church handing out 200 buttons that read “It’s OK, Wish Me A Merry Christmas” appeared on the front page of the London Free Press. The story also made the A-Channel evening news, and the [...]
December 2007
I just read an interesting piece by Julian Baggini about the value of complaining. His argument is roughly that complaining is what makes us human: our defining characteristic is a sense of right and wrong, or the ability to “conceive of the idea that things are not as they ought to be,” and an impulse [...]
