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Merry Commercial Christmas

Gary North

Dec. 22, 2009

Fred Reed wrote a great piece on the commercialization of Christmas.

Read it here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/reed/reed170.html

I say, "When we think Christmas, we should think fruitcakes."

Lest we forget, there is Stan Freberg's classic Green Chri$tma$ two-side single from 1958. It's now on YouTube. (Note: Freberg is one of the great masters of advertising in modern history -- arguably the greatest who uses humor.)

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