Santa's Twin

As the next Christmas neared, I was taken aback when my niece Heather asked if Insanity Claus was coming back again this year. I had forgotten all about him - I saw it as a one time thing. So all you people who enjoy Insanity Claus can thank Heather Pinto for his continued existence.

The story was embelleshied this year by explaining the relationship between Santa and Insanity Claus. They are brothers. Even better, they are twins. Insanity Claus overcompensates for his brother being the dominant twin. Insanity Claus is emotionally off balance, and is jealous of his brother. He doesn't like how everyone knows who Santa is, but people don't know about him - or worse, mistake Insanity as being Santa.

Insanity moved as far from his brother as he could. He doesn't have unkind feelings for his brother, he just needed his space. So he settled at the South Pole.