Something fun for the day after Thanksgiving.  A lazy day on the computer brought me to this clip from the new show “Whatever, Martha!”.  I was searching for Martha Stewart books (I know, why do I bother?) and found a link to her daughter Alexis’ show on FLN. Funny stuff…

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Each year I write a post (or ten) about the Holiday shopping season.  This year is no different.  Today I would like to discuss the phenomenon of shopping known as “Black Friday” or the day after Thanksgiving here in America.
The day after Thanksgiving each year is affectionately referred to as “Black Friday”.  [...]

At the end of next week the official holiday shopping season will begin.  “Black Friday” is what the retail industry refers to the day after Thanksgiving as.  It signals the beginning of the holiday rush.  With the economy so poor, it is inconceivable to believe that people will still be crazily shopping, but consumers never [...]

You can’t wear a sign that says “yours” when that ain’t what you get. - Callous by Ani Difranco
Over the past few months I have had an ongoing conversation (and sometimes argument) with a very close friend about prejudice.  His prejudice to be exact.  My hope was that once the election was over [...]

Now that my birthday is over (and it was lovely I might add) I am ready to move on to the other November holiday.  I bet you thought (judging from the title) that this was going to be a post about the December holiday season.  Well - you were wrong!  Before we start shopping for [...]