Bah Humbug and so forth

As the creeping Christmas crap encroaches into the shopping malls this time of year, I must admit I always tend to get a bit Scrooge about the whole affair. I was thinking I'd share that surliness with you all.

But, then I read on Seth's blog, the sentence that sums up Christmas Shopping for me:

"The consumer portion of our economy is now dependent on a four-week long debt-fueled race to buy the useless..."

So sad. And so true. But mainly sad...