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TMQ Nation fires back

By Gregg Easterbrook
Special to Page 2

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

TMQ expressed existential dread that Christmas marketing has crept forward to September. Jerime Wargo of Dyer, Ind., writes, "On Labor Day my wife and I were at the Carson Pirie Scott in Merrillville, Indiana, when we spotted the clerks setting up Christmas trees." Matt Diller of Chicago writes, "On Saturday, September 8, my girlfriend and I went to Michigan Avenue in Chicago to do a bit of shopping. At the Watertower Place Macy's, a section of the store was blocked off with tarps. We peeked thr ...

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