It seems like the Christmas season starts a little earlier each year. A couple years back I was shocked when Costco put out Christmas items the week after Halloween; now the Christmas decorations are on sale weeks before trick-or-treating. And this year, even the War on Christmas has come early.

Over the weekend, people started flipping out over the 2015 version of the Starbucks red cups. The gist of the story is that one of America’s great holiday traditions is the heralding of winter marked by Starbucks switching their paper cups from white to red. The red cups have little designs and/or greetings on them wishing people happy holidays, or merry Kwanza, or blessed be, or what have you. And Americans treasure these icons of salvation. But this year the commies who decided that Starbucks was both capable of repairing race relations and too good for the second amendment are trying to airbrush Jesus out of American culture by rendering the Christmas red cups devoid of any Christmas symbols whatsoever. The cups are just plain red, with a green Starbucks logo. And boy, are Christians pissed.