The Annual Running of the Morons

So, did any of you Gentle Readers participate in the human stampedes "doorbusters" of Black Friday? I saw that J.C. Penney was opening at 4AM; the first people through the doors at that ungodly hour should have been trucked right to the local Dim Bulb Warehouse. The executives who decided to open at that time (all of whom were probably home asleep at 0400) should have been shot.

They'd have to be selling $100 bills for $5 apiece (limit, one thousand per customer) in order to get me out to stand in that line.

On the other hand, maybe we need a gazillion people to go out and spend heedlessly, since Dubai is kind of defaulting on $59 billion in debt. Though, when you have that level of debt, they'll call it anything other than a "default" and they'll be more than happy to do what it takes, even if it is "extend and pretend" that it will be repaid. Good luck doing that with your mortgage or credit cards, though.

Update: Some of the news reports said that brainwashed imbeciles people began lining up at some Best Buy stores at noon on Thursday in order to save a few clams on laptops. If a potential guest told me that he couldn't come to Thanksgiving dinner because he was going to stand on line overnight at some big-box store, well, I don't think I'd be associating with them on a regular basis.