Blogson Johnny-Oh of Closet Extremist has a couple holiday laments, both of which I can fix.

First the lack of a secular winter holiday:

The main thing that I wanna say is (of course) Merry Christmas! (Sure I'm an athiest, but that doesn't mean that I can't use the ages-old expression of well wishes during the Holiday Season. Get off my back already!)

Well, Happy Agnostica:

"An agnostic?" I asked him, "So what's up with that?"
"Belief in ourselves!" he said, "Pure logic and fact!
"But what about us who have no religion?
"Who celebrate science? Don't we get a smidgen?"
"Yes! We'll celebrate science, not some `god' in the sky!
"And declare that Jesus was just a nice guy."
# "The person of the century as declared by Time
"Is a person on SCIENCE- Albert Einstein!"
King Luca continued, "So why not revere
"This new white haired-man at this time each year?
"For Einstein! For Rutherford! For Bohr, Planck and Fermi!
"For Heisenberg, Schrodinger, for Roentgen and Curie!
"For all of those Nukees who've ever known scorn,
"The secular holiday AGNOSTICA is born!"

Second, the blandness of cash as a Christmas gift.

Most times a nice little trinket that goes along with someone's interest's is more appreciated than something as impersonal as cash, but I had to do something.

Actually, if you're going to give cash, it doesn't have to be dull. Liven it up with oddball stuff, like $2 bills, Sacagewea Dollars, Susan B. Anthony dollars, or Kennedy halves. Most banks have some of these laying around gathering dust in their vaults. You just have to ask.

But even if you can't FIND anything exotic, you can always MAKE something...

Money Origami.

After that, just duct tape them inside a paper bag, and you'll have created the bestest gift they ever got.

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