dave submitted a story in the Chicago Tribune about a bunch of lawsuits over the diminishing use of the word "Christmas" and replacement by "holidays."

Christian groups point to recent controversies such as Boston naming its official Christmas tree a "holiday tree"--a label that has caused far more of a furor in Boston than in Chicago.

Donnie Hatt, the Canadian logger who has long donated a tree to Boston, said that if he had known the city would re-label his gift, he would have thrown it into a wood chipper instead.

Choice quote: "The interesting thing about each of these cases is they're all in red states," Johnson said, referring to the popular term that describes more conservative states that typically vote Republican in national elections. "That's rural Georgia. That's the last place you would think political correctness would rule the day, but that's apparently what's going on."