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The Great Rhode Island 'Holiday Tree' Scandal

Jim Newell ยท 11/30/11 05:30PM

We're still pretty early into the holiday season, but lo, enemy forces have already entrenched themselves on a central front in this year's War on Christmas: Rhode Island, state of... whatever. The governor there โ€” like other recent governors! โ€” has decided to call the 17-foot blue spruce in the Statehouse a "holiday tree," rather than a Christmas tree. Oh. Shit.