Santa Claus, a.k.a. Saint Nicholas, an alleged toymaker and gift-giver based at the North Pole, is at the center of a wealth redistribution scheme of global proportions. The “Father Christmas Plan” calls for the world-wide dispersal of unearned income (usually in the guise of nutcrackers, bicycles,
You know you’re losing the PR game when you’re facing a moral crisis similar to Jimmy Swaggart’s, and his reaction demonstrated more integrity than your own. Such is the dilemma confronting Pope Benedict XVI in the face of the priest molestation scandal. When Swaggart was outted back in 1988 for doing things with a prostitute that would embarrass Ron Jeremy, the televangelist huckster walked out to center stage of his ministry of 7,000 in Baton Rouge, admitted “moral failure,” resigned his post before the world, and blubbered to the Lord for forgiveness. Then he asked for donations.
There’s one thing all end of the world predictions have in common: they’ve all been wrong. But throughout history there’s always been some fanbase that gets strangely jazzed about the end of the world. This is not good. If you think The End is near, you tend to do things that help it along and you ignore long-