Obscene Retailing

Black Friday insanity. I wonder what Iraqis or US troops in Iraq think of what they might have seen on their TVs today or early tomorrow morning. People going nuts in the US to get the latest flat screen TV under $1000 or other must have "gift"(to themselves). It all seems a little perverse to me given that 300 civilians were blow up in the last two days in Iraq and most likely a few soldiers died also. Where are our priorities? As Charlie Brown said, "I'm not going to let all this commercialism ruin Christmas."