Christmas Has Been Saved, Now Return To Your Homes

Staunch defenders of Christmas manned the wall this weekend in Westlake Center in an effort to turn back the heathen hordes, a move Seattlest likens to trying to stop the tide from rising up the beach at Golden Gardens with a Maginot Line of sand. The enemy isn't the silly complaints that lead to the sillier municipal renamings of trees, parties, etc, but that's probably a more winnable fight than the actual "problem." The "problem" is the mass of people who aren't necessarily celebrating the birth of a god who still want to get down with friends, family and a little egg nog around the end of the year. "Backoff, Godless Wonders - This is our party. Go celebrate the solstice or something." Right.

Reports indicate that "dozens, if not hundreds" decended on Seattle's Christmas Central on Saturday to sing some carols and hoist a few signs. In lieu of actually going downtown to take a few pictures of our own we were planning to send you over to flickr for the usual orgy of images, but apparently Christmas Savers aren't as technically inclined as one would hope and we were only able to unearth one solitary photo.