November 23 is too early to string up Christmas lights and start playing Christmas music. And twenty-four hours of that music, for a full month, will be appreciated by no one but seasonal retailers and the clinically insane.

It’s too early, if only because it will get those ridiculous “war on Christmas” arguments trotted out by the likes of Bill O’Reilly and Fox News. We don’t need that, ever, and we certainly don’t need a month and a half of it before the holiday season even begins.