Over at Nothing But Love, Bill says he’s heard his first Christmas song of the season.

I can confirm that the holidays insanity is upon us here as well. I was in the local Rite Aid drug store yesterday and had to stop and check my watch: Yep, 9.7.2007 … Whew, guess I didn’t slip into a catatonic state for a month, again. (I hate it when that happens.)

I needed to confirm because there, amassed and arrayed before me, was a vast display of Halloween crap.

Later, in Starbucks, about a dozen teenage girls appeared, lookin for lattes in all the right places, and all decked out in their Halloween costumes. In fairness, that might have been something else, like freshman hazing maybe … still …

What pitiful manner of moron is so tickled by the itch of the world’s second stupidest holiday (the first being the running of the bulls in Pamplona) that s/he needs to costume up 7 weeks in advance?

Great googlymoogly. Western civilization is crumbling like a giant plaster wiener, atop an abandoned hot dog stand.