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Wynette, by then a country music legend with a tinseled string of No. 1 songs, was, as she expressed it in an open letter, as angry as she could be.

As artists and writers know all too well, there’s no place like home for the holidays, with tensions simmering beneath the tinseled surface of foil-wrapped presents and forced cheer.

On a gray day, the sky is indistinguishable from the sea, just various shades of steel -- misty and pixelating in the distance, sort of tinseled.

Scott Walker, the former Wisconsin governor, opened fire in early November with a decorative salvo, tweeting a tinseled conifer and insisting “This is not a holiday tree.”

Please understand, I’m not a wraith in sackcloth among the tinseled brides of fortune.