WARNING–DON’T CLICK ON JESUS’ GENERAL IF YOU ARE AT WORK OR AT YOUR MOM’S HOUSE UNLESS YOUR MOM IS AN OLD HIPPY, THEN SHE WOULD JUST LAUGH. Jesus’ General has more on the controversy caused by a holiday greeting. Best Buy put a tiny ‘Happy Eid’ in a corner of a page of one of its advertising inserts and that made some people seriously unhappy. I had not been aware, until reading Jesus’ General, that the Muslim holiday caused a rush on a facility that was used both for slaughtering goats and dressing deer.

Well, you know how it is around this time of year. Tempers get short with the waiting in line and congestion. You can’t always get what you want, as a great American once said. But sometimes, if you try, you can get what you need.

We are just past Thanksgiving. Being chronically late I want to give tardy thanks to Roger Williams, who built our foundation right. Religious freedom is not always convenient, and sometimes uncomfortable, but we owe a lot to the founders who knew that a free conscience is a good worth sacrificing for.