The talk radio punditocracy must be celebrating some kind of victory this year. If not, I’m surprised, because editorial writers like this are hailing the decision.

Yes, “Merry Christmas” has returned to Wal-Mart as well as to Macy’s, Sears, Kohl’s and probably a bunch of others.

Call me a cynical Scrooge, but on some level it feels like a kind of final straw, a symptom of a cultural acknowledgement that Christmas has shed all pretention of being a spiritual holiday and has become far and away a commercial one.

Of course, when you read a story like this one that talks of a “near riot” outside a Circuit City on Black Friday, it’s hard not to be cynical.

This entry was posted on Monday, November 27th, 2006 at 6:03 am and is filed under Marketing Stuff.