The Belmont Club is really that, a club. It has acquired a certain tone, with all of its good and bad points, largely from its commenters. We’ve come to recognize each other. It’s like a small town where we’ve got the Air Force Guy, the desalinization man, Gender theorist, redneck Muslim, veterans of various and sundry wars; financial expert, mysterious trader, respectable academic, author of books on cable warfare, the kooky but sometimes thought provoking lesbian, the let’s kill em all and let God sort them out types, the ex-Jesuit, the militant Jew and the borderline anti-semite. There may actually be a militant gay person in there somewhere, though I haven’t noticed. For variety we are occasionally visited by the FSB and oh, yes, the Left. And while you couldn’t actually create a club with this sort of membership without having to call in the cops to break up a riot, somehow on the Internet it works.

So whatever religion you may belong to or do not belong to, Merry Christmas to everyone and may the coming year be kind to us all.