Lileks Flays Wolcott

The Bleat responds to a critic. It is interesting in many ways:

.... I’m empathetic to the meanings of other holidays. I suspect others are equally ecumenical and forgiving. For that matter I suspect that 98.025% of the population has no trouble with Merry Christmas shouted long and loud and clear this time of the year. Why, then, do the retail giants and big corporations seem to get a frozen Joker-smile when you bring it up? Yes, I know. Macy’s says “Merry Christmas” in tiny type on their website; dandy. But Southdale, the nation’s first enclosed shopping mall, hung MERRY CHRISTMAS in six-foot tall letters in 1963. This year? Not a word. Big candles, though. If you don’t think that’s an interesting development, or wonder why it happened or what it means, fine. Blog away about adventures in bird-watching, for all I care....

(Thanks, Amy.)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Thu. 12/23/04 07:16:33 AM
Categorized as Social/Cultural.