Which is, of course, that we all got through it partially sane.  As an agnostic party-pooper, the American Failure will put this holiday season in his Success pile and put it behind him.  Many cookies were made, much egg-nogg was dedrunkt, and much sleeping in was sleept.

One failure that we have to look out for is basing our opinion of Christmas on how we see people acting in our nation’s fine retail outlets.  Although everyone appears to be miserable, that doesn’t mean they aren’t enjoying themselves.  And just because the holiday celebrates the birth of a possibly fictitious character born 2008 years ago, and is not anywhere near this person’s actual birthdate, and was blatantly ripped off from pagan holidays, and manages to embrace so much that is the very antithesis of what that man supposedly stood for, that doesn’t mean it isn’t actually sacred.

Yep.

So get on with your lives and try not to over-think it.