In keeping with the season (as Scrooge's servant and teacher in poverty was wont to put it), I always think about the origins of "Christmas" and the association of "Santa" with the Solstice celebration we have today.  For it is the Solstice (Sol-stice, get it?) celebration that dates to our earliest manifestations on earth, 200,000 years ago.  Right there we dare insult the believers, whose Pries…