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Happy Solstice to all! Light a candle tonight and thank the Sun for coming back and making the days longer. That's the reason for the season.

I get so tired of the myopia and jingoism I hear today. In this season that's supposed to be about "Peace on Earth, and good will towards men," why is it that all we hear is "God bless America?" As though God would only be concerned with a portion of creation rather than the whole. It seems to me that we would all be better served by the attitude expressed by Tiny Tim, who says in the Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol , "God bless us, every one ."