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- Apparently speaking seriously, O'Reilly's guest, Forbes magazine senior editor Elizabeth MacDonald, blamed department store decorations for holiday season alcoholism and depression: “And you have got to wonder why people become depressed alcoholics around the season, because the meaning is sucked out of it.” As if to confirm that this was not just an offhand remark, MacDonald repeated her hypothesis moments later: “Again, I have to say I'm not surprised people become depressed alcoholics during the Christmas season.”