Black Friday: The day when those with plenty, fight tooth and nail for a little bit more. It’s a bizarre ritual. People camp outside retail outlets in the cold. Voluntarily. No one make them do this; they choose to become feral for a day. At dawn, the hounds are unleashed and the worst in everyone comes out in a peck-and-paw melee over various electronics and other luxuries. It seems absurd that this sort of event still takes place even when “Cyber Monday” exists. At least it provides the newscasters something to report on for a day.



Too bad.