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Vestal: Morris embraces Xmas victimhood

In this Dec. 18, 2014 file photo, Jeremy Morris, his wife, Kristy, and their daughter Savannah Claire stand in front of their home in Hayden. (SR file photo)
In this Dec. 18, 2014 file photo, Jeremy Morris, his wife, Kristy, and their daughter Savannah Claire stand in front of their home in Hayden. (SR file photo)

It’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. All the whining, I mean. A Hayden man has inaugurated what is becoming an annual holiday tradition – warrior Christians picking fights over imagined minor slights. Like the Christmas season itself, the War on Christmas starts earlier and earlier each year. Already, Hayden attorney Jeremy Morris is erecting a grotesquerie of Christmas lights at his home, a big blaring demonstration sure to irritate the neighbors. In fact, it was intended to – Morris has acknowledged that he had a “media strategy” in place before his homeowners association even complained. Now, Morris has donned the mantle of the defiant, persecuted victim, which is increasingly the spirit of the season for a certain kind of bitter elf – looking high and low for offense, and responding with maniacal intensity/Shawn Vestal, SR. More here.

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D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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