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Recently, our good friend Bill O’Reilly announced (emphasis mine):

I am not going to let oppressive, totalitarian, anti-Christian forces in this country diminish and denigrate the holiday and the celebration. I am not going to let it happen. I’m gonna use all the power that I have on radio and television to bring horror into the world of people who are trying to do that.

My question is: if a terrorist is someone who uses terror to achieve political goals, does this mean Bill O’reilly is a horrorist? Shouldn’t our government be working overtime to eliminate self-proclaimed domestic horrorists? Why haven’t we raised the horror alert level?

Bill’s horrible promise is part of his ongoing War on Decency. He is actively trying to make Christianity look like an oppressive, intolerant, hate-filled philosophy by claiming that Christians (85% of the country, he claims) think anyone who says “Happy Holidays” instead of “Merry Christmas” is effectively anti-Jesus.

Earlier, Bill said this only applies to America:

They don’t have to say “Merry Christmas” in China, OK? They can say whatever they say in China, “Happy Winter.” All right? “We like pandas.” Say whatever you want.

I think we should let Bill know that we all want him to have a wonderful holiday season this year, no matter what he celebrates. That’s why I’ve created this simple, printable “We Like Pandas!” card that you can print out, fold, add a personal greeting to, and send to him. Click here to download the PDF (275 kb). Once it’s printed, simply trim along the dotted line, then fold the paper in half twice (top-to-bottom, then left-to-right) to make it into a card that will fit nicely into a standard #10 letter envelope. Write a friendly message inside, and send your card to the following address:

Bill O’Reilly
c/o Fox News Channel
1211 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10036

Let’s all wish Bill O’Reilly a happy holiday season! Leave a comment here if you send a card — let’s see how many of these he gets!

My newest project, worksafer, has been released. Worksafer is a Firefox extension coupled with a web-accessible database that tries to help you avoid accidentally visiting “unsafe” websites from your work computer. If you click on a link that would normally take you to a site with objectionable content, such as a porn site or a site featuring a loud Flash movie, the worksafer extension will look up that site in its database, check to see if it appears unsafe based on the peoples’ votes, and if so, temporarily redirect you to a warning page. If you still want to see the site, you’ll have a ten-minute window in which to do so.

With the worksafer extension installed, if you come across a website with objectionable content that is not yet considered unsafe, you can submit a “NSFW” (Not Safe For Work) vote for that site. Conversely, if you come across a site marked NSFW and you feel it has been marked that way unfairly, you can submit a “SFW” vote. If enough people submit votes, a large percentage of unsafe sites will be stored in the database, and you’ll be more safe.

If you’re interested, you can download the worksafer extension and give it a try.