The most controversial of all

our holidays is upon us. Thankfully, though, most people have stopped

opposing "Trick-or-Treating," and the Satanic mission that it

supposedly propagates. I guess those people are spending all their time

these days deriding anything "Harry Potter." You can't feel

cleaner without something getting dirty.

Halloween, like all holidays

in our country, has simply become commercial. And even the gates of Hades

or the brew of witches can't withstand the power of Madison Avenue and

a good Wal-Mart promotion. At this time of the year I worry less about

the forces of evil polluting the minds of my children, than I do during

station breaks from "Sponge Bob Square Pants."

Halloween has become the great

promotional bridge between "