[NEWS] Seven Christmas links: Bowie and Bing, horror, ghosts, holidays, xenophobia, Elf on the Shelf

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• Dangerous Minds shares the story of the remarkable duet between Bing Crosby and David Bowie.


• Dangerous Minds looks at the 1980 horror film To All A Goodnight.


• Strange Company shares a strange story, of a ghostly choir reportedly heard in 1944, here.


• Caitlin Kelly at the Broadside Blog writes about why she and her husband each take Christmas seriously.


• Paul Campos at Lawyers, Guns and Money looks at the xenophobia behind the idea of a War on Christmas, going back to the anti-Semitism of Henry Ford.


• JSTOR Daily carries suggestions that the idea of the Grinch, from Dr. Seuss, has anti-Semitic origins.


• VICE makes the case for the creepiness of the Elf on the Shelf in the context of a surveillance society, here.