Starbucks Red Cups: Ringing in the Christmas Season

Peppermint Hot Chocolate or Gingerbread Latte?

(By ringing, I hope we mean ringing like ringing up at a cash register.) Yesterday, the Church of Starbucks revealed their annual red Christmas cups. Nothing says the holiday season like seeing people walking around with the festively decorated red cups instead of the usual white-green combo. And nothing smells like consumerism than releasing these babies the week after Halloween. Following suit with the rest of America, we have pushed the holiday season earlier and earlier into the year. I will not be surprised when one day we create a hybrid Halloween-Christmas. It's like staring into the face of a frightening Nightmare Before Christmas like holiday. And nobody wants Tim Burton to win. Right?