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Merry Christmas December 25, 2003 Another Colorful Season By HAMMOND GUTHRIE and STEW ALBERT Orange is the color for the holiday alert, just before Red, the color of dread, but continue living normally this hopeful season-- though the days are potentially terrified Colorful Orange is the codeful background for Silent Night car searching and valeting Holiday Airport Homeland Security stand-by-- Santa's locked and loaded little helpers American guardians causing indivisible traffic jams showing Osama the Bad Santa their not just fooling around with chaos-- directions will inevitably to be delayed. Hammond Guthrie is the author of AsEverWas: Memoirs of a Beat Survivor. He is the editor of the great online journal The 3rd Page. He can be reached at: writenow@spiritone.com Stew Albert runs the Yippie Reading Room. His memoir, Who the Hell is Stew Albert?, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. He can be reached at: stewa@aol.com © 2003--Hammond Guthrie & Stew Albert