Wal-Mart Death Iconic Of Everything Wrong With America According To New York Times

The Really: David Carr of the New York Times explains consumer herd mentality led to death of Wal-Mart worker is proof of something.

In an interesting piece in today's Times, David Carr shows consumerism run amok in the death of a Long Island temp worker at a Wal-Mart trampled by bargain hunting mob. But why did he not take the hypothesis futher to include Italian soccer games, rock concerts and bull teasing?

Why They Call It Black Friday

The Really: A Wal-Mart employee was killed and a woman suffered a miscarriage when a crowd broke through the doors at 5:00 am to hunt for "bargains" at a Wal-Mart on Long Island.

So is this why they call it Black Friday? American shoppers have always been insane but add the evil of the recent economic disaster and the more it is like the Day of the Locust than Black Friday.