I have mixed feelings about Christmas. I love getting together with my family and exchanging gifts, but I can't stand the music and the way it makes Christians behave so stupidly by whining about the war on Christmas. I hate that shit.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell