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December 22, 2004

LIFE IN SANTA-VILLE....It's tough being Santa Claus:

As Christmas becomes more commercialized, so must Santa. As the holiday begins earlier each year, so must its spokesman and standard-bearer. What used to be a three-week gig has become a two-month grind, from the day after Halloween to New Year's. Often you answer to three equally demanding bosses -- the parent, the mall, the photographer -- and one all-powerful overseer, the child, who has come to view Santa as a cross between a birthday party clown and a miracle worker. A hybrid of Bozo and God.

Carl Anderson, a psychologist and adjunct professor at the University of Texas, Austin, wrote his dissertation about the effects of Santa on children....

This is where I get off the train. A dissertation on Santa Claus? Enough's enough.

(Just kidding. It's actually a pretty interesting article. Go read it.)

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