Ebenezer Scrooge and George Bailey…

Langston Hughes and the Four Plaids…

Handel and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir…

Christmas in Wales and Christmas in Macy*s…

The Mouse King and the Sugar Plum Fairy…

Your local carolers, buskers, jazz artists, ornament craft-makers, and pageant participants know what it’s about. Joy, family, charity, peace, and goodwill toward mankind.

And a boatload of cash.  The Holiday-Cash-Cow sings, “Moo-moo-moo, moo-moo-moo, moo-moo-moo-moo-moo.”

“But we pay for the stuff no one wants to see all year with this one production of ‘A Christmas Carol!” said a board president pal of mine.

And as one managing director famously said, “We do the mission all year long.  Except Christmas.  That’s where we try to make money.”

Last I checked, one of the morals of “A Christmas Carol” had something to do with, what was it again…?