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Ready for a Boston-style assault on Christmas? Check out “The Slutcracker” coming to the Somerville Theatre. It’s a celebration of strippers, sadomasochism, transsexuals, and “the carefree realm of sexual fantasy.” Of course, the blurbs in Boston Magazine, the Boston Herald, or the Boston Globe only hint at how raunchy it is. Unbelievably, the Boston Herald even jokes about sexual abuse of children in its Holiday Arts Preview: And if the Santa Claus in your life needs some lovin’, “The Slutcracker” may be just the thing to set the mood. A parody retelling of the classic, written and directed by Vanessa...

Editor, Daily News: I encourage Daily News readers to read the Communist Manifesto. They might recognize political correctness as communism! The modern edition is easy to read. Property rights, parental rights (sex education and abortion) and the freedom of religion are all rights rejected by communism. Lines from the Communist Manifesto say, "In this sense the theory of Communists can be summed up in one single sentence: Abolition of private property ... On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois (owners of companies and employers) family based? On capital, on private gain ... The bourgeois family will vanish ......

Many of us long for simpler times, the days when you could wish your friends and family a "Merry Christmas" without a disclaimer of a hint of irony. Days of glowing lights, nativity scenes, full-throated caroling, collections for the poor, sermons about the infant Jesus bringing hope, joy and light to a world of darkness. Back then, actually not that long ago, Christmas seemed so uncontroversial. Fortunately, the above Christmas spirit has not disappeared entirely from view. It still exists in many communities across this nation. But political correctness and intolerance have done its work over the past several decades....