Taking Back Thanksgiving

It's time for the annual half-day celebration of Thanksgiving, also known as pre-Christmas, where Americans give thanks for the opportunity to shop for the next holiday. That is, if they have time.

When did Thanksgiving become so unimportant that it only deserves six hours of acknowledgement? Answer: when retailers realized that they can't make a whole lot of money out of it.

And when did we start to allow retail stores to dictate our actions? Probably about the same time we began to allow the news media to dictate public opinion. More...