Follow up to the "Happy Holidays" post below...

As followup to this post, I would like to add two things:

1. What's the deal with everyone writing "CHRISTmas"; they are completely ignoring half the word. The -mas in Christmas is short for MASS; Mass? Why, yes. Mass.

Mass also mass (măs)
n.
a. Public celebration of the Eucharist in the Roman Catholic Church and some Protestant churches.
b. The sacrament of the Eucharist.

2. This is someone else's commentary on the subject, and I agree with her. It's also in the print edition of this week's Newsweek.