Yet, they are quite moral. And they're not some bizarre exception, either. What does this say about the Tinkerbell theory from Dan Henninger.

Alice laughed. "There's no use trying," she said. "One can't believe impossible things."

"I dare say you haven't had much practice," said the queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast."

You know, I'm no economist, but this is pure lunacy. For those who are too hurried to read the link, the author -- Daniel Henninger, fresh off of the weed given to him by the Cheshire Cat -- argues that because we are a decadent, secular country whose populace can no longer say "Merry Christmas", nobody has jobs or money.

And if you believe in fairies, clap. Clap now! LOUDER!

It's probably beside the point to point out how simple facts like various non-Christian economies (like those in the Middle East or China) somehow managed to thrive without Merry Christmases, or that the United States is one of the most religious countries in the developed world (through boom and bust), or that the US suffered through economic collapses during times of high religiosity (take it away, "Hizoy").

But you know, that's the type of magical thinking that leads to Christians descending onto Wall Street to worship a golden calf. I think it worked as well this time as it did last time.

Dumb reason to object to seeing "An Inconvenient Truth". . .

"No you will not teach or show that propagandist Al Gore video to my child, blaming our nation -- the greatest nation ever to exist on this planet -- for global warming," the ironically named Frosty Hardiman wrote in an e-mail to the Federal Way School Board, when he learned his daughter's science class was screening the film. According to the Washington Post, the 43-year-old computer consultant is an evangelical Christian who says he believes that a warming planet is "one of the signs" of Jesus Christ's imminent return for Judgment Day.

Think of it as Heaven's Gate in slow motion.