Mary Schmich: Here's to the holiday birthday babies, who get neglected in this busy time of year

Let's pause for a moment before the holidays hit high gear to honor a neglected segment of our society: the holiday birthday babies.

We are the people born in the social whirlwind from Thanksgiving week through New Year's week, those patient souls whose birthdays arrive in the holiday hubbub as an afterthought, an inconvenience, an intrusion.

We are Republicans and Democrats, old and young, people of all creeds and colors united by our birthday's placement on