Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
— Justice Louis D. Brandeis
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Thanksgiving is passed, as is Black Friday and Cyber Monday. So, you can decorate without bad luck or opprobrium from right-thinking people. Of course, the nature of that decorating is in flux. 😛
Some Very Fine Christmasween Decorations
Oh! And to all you fanatical Clausians, check your calendars. Besides, you really shouldn’t be doing purely Christmas stuff until Advent, which starts Sun, Dec 3, 2023 this year.
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So, yesterday – that’d be November 4th – I went shopping. And what did I find? Christmas stuff… all over the place – Christmas-themed product packaging, Christmas-themed products themselves, and whole Christmas decorations and paraphernalia displays. On November 4th!
When the Christmas Creep is this aggressive, I’m forced to pull out the Halloween Calendar in response. 😉 If the cultists of the ice-bound Draugr from the North can’t wait – in America – until at least the day after Thanksgiving, we’re going to have to combat their advance. And hey! I’d strongly prefer they be forced to wait until Advent – that’d be Sunday, December 3rd this year – to trot out the Christmas stuff, but I’m not a fanatic and am quite willing to compromise to the old tradition of the day after Thanksgiving.
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