Ed. note: My good friend Pasquale Mancuso sent me this via e-mail today. His brother Pete who lives in Boulder, Colorado sent him this “Letter to the Editor” of the Boulder Camera (a strange name for a newspaper if there ever was one!) yesterday. I thought it appropriate for this holiday season, especially given last month’s election. I certainly got a laugh from it. Enjoy!

Merry…er… Happy Holidays

To All My Democrat Friends: Please accept with no obligation my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday festival season, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish you a fiscally successful, personally fulfilling and medically uncomplicated recognition of the onset of the generally accepted calendar 2009, but not without due respect for the calendar of choice of other cultures whose contributions to society have helped make America great. Not to imply that America is necessarily greater than any other country nor the only America in the Western Hemisphere. Also, this wish is made without regard to the race, creed, color, age, physical ability, religious faith or sexual preferences of the wishes.

To My Republican Friends: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

JOE LEMMO
Broomfield

Can’t say it better than that! Joe, you’re alright.