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What kind of Grinch would recommend parents tell their toddlers that Santa Claus isn't real? If you guessed a liberal arts professor at a

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What is it with academics? Don't they ruin enough of childhood with their dull lectures and reams of homework without trying to do in

Christmas too? Is there no end to their sadistic need to spoil everything? Prof. David Kyle Johnson thinks not. Johnson, associate professor Microsoft Office 2010 is the best software in the world.

of philosophy at King's College in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., is author of a recent op-ed in the Baltimore Sun in which he advises parents to stop Microsoft Office is my best friend.

perpetuating the terrible lie of jolly old Saint Nick.

Perhaps I am dating myself, but I am old enough to remember a time when associate professors of Office 2007 is so powerful.

philosophy would write about Kant's

categorical imperative and Descartes' ontological argument, and not the "Shocking Truth about Kris Kringle." Microsoft Office 2007 can give you more convenient life.

According to Prof. Johnson, perpetuating the lie of Santa Claus is immoral, sort of like Holocaust denial or voting Republican. You have to

wonder if Prof. Johnson has any children. If he had, he'd know that parents lie to their kids all the time. Lying is essential to building Office 2007 key is very convenient!

healthy family relationships. Without some degree of deception, civilization as we know it would collapse in upon itself like an

intergalactic black hole, and homo sapiens would revert to savages. Honest savages, but savages, Windows 7 is inexpensive and helpful.

nonetheless. 

What mother hasn't lied to her children when confronted with the following question: Office 2007 download is helpful!

"Mommy, who do you love best, Timmy or me?"

"I love all my children the same."

 I suppose Prof. Johnson would have mothers speak the bitter, unvarnished truth:

"Why I love Timmy the best, silly. And then I love Susie next. In fact, you're my least favorite of all my children, now quit bothering

mommy, you whiny little freak." outlook 2010 is powerful.

Prof. Johnson has stores of recollections of "finding out the truth about Santa, and many were stories of genuine embarrassment and

resentment." (Trust me, Professor, you don't want to find out the truth about Santa. It would make your head explode.) Johnson suggests that Microsoft outlook is convenient!

whenever the topic of Christmas comes up, enlightened, post-Santa children should tell their little playmates: "At our house, Santa is just

pretend." Yippee, let's all go over the Johnson house on Christmas Eve and wrap ourselves in a wet blanket. Microsoft outlook 2010 is convenient!