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Do go read Mark Shea on the Seattle Airport Holiday Debacle. Mark at his best.<\/a><\/p>\n

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It couldn’t be that the state just, like, acknowledge that a couple of important religious traditions in the US are having an annual celebration and we get to reap the benefits of that in the form of some beautiful lights and glass balls. Nope. Anything other than the complete denuding of the Public Square means that the 30 Years War is just around the corner.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do go read Mark Shea on the Seattle Airport Holiday Debacle. Mark at his best. 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