“Sorry I took your baby Jesus. It was a childish prank,” the perpetrator said in a handwritten note. “As far as his new color, I thought I would point out that Jesus was not an Aryan but actually a man of color. Although you probably knew this but would rather not be reminded.” The thief added that the paint job was “not some sort of racial thing … actually I’m white. But I know what color Jesus was.”
—It wasn’t so much the paint job they minded, but he was now rigged up to get down on one knee and sing “Mammy” . . .
Around here, vandals have the decency to replace the purloined Baby Jesus with a bathroom scale. Even though the Kid is gone, you can still get a weigh in a manger.