HOLIDAY CHEER....or is that FEAR??

Sometimes people forget that with every good there is some bad. It's a fact of life. Optimists are great, in fact most times I try to maintain a good outlook on things myself but this Holiday season I urge all to be on guard and give a little thought to some things....
Ever wonder about Jack Frost and Old Man Winter? Are these aliases for one another? Are these guys, slick, beguiling, cold? Are they helpful, pansophistic, paternal? Are they in fact the creators of Frosty the sneauxman and the abominable sneauxman? On a note of Frosty, who is this guy? What's in the pipe? The broom? Does he beat people with it? Sure, we go through childhood thinking he's a wonderful snow-clad fellow with benevolent intentions, but let that pipe smoke away and let that broom be a swingin' and you have, in my humble opinion, a giant mess on your hands.