Shocking holiday-TV revelation

My God, the Washington Post has hit upon a stunning revelation: Christmas TV is mainly bullsh!t, aimed primarily at getting people to buy even more junk. And kids are savvier than their parents, who wallow in a nostalgia for something that never really existed. And now in a cable universe of hundreds of stations, each airing their own arid, staid, generic holiday entertainments, it’s hard to unite people around facile homilies celebrating family and sentimentality and anything resembling meaning.

Is this the same Washington Post that brought down Nixon? Because if it is, I hear there’s another corrupt regime that’s dragging us into disastrous wars and justifying torture and shredding the Constitution and maybe we should be a smidgen concerned about all that.

On the other hand, maybe we should send the Post’s reporters’ kids in to investigate these rumors. Because, after all, they’re savvier than their parents and they’re the ones who’ll have to deal with this in the end.