I have always loved a hard-faced girl. I get that Alison Goldfrapp isn't easy, and I like her belligerence. She's deeply sexy and controlled, like a Strict Machine, and it seems to wind the b'jesus out of the women I know. On the outside, I watch and smile and will her on like a twisted silent maiden aunt in the dark corner.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.

The emphasis on the birth of Christ tends to polarize our pluralistic society and create legal and ethnic belligerence.