In Defense of Black Friday
With Thanksgiving behind us, there is a crispy clean feeling in the air. The kind of feeling that can only mean one thing: time to start capitalizing on other people’s feelings of lack of self […]
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Your Guide To Hassle-Free Holiday Shopping
Holiday shopping can be such a hassle. The crowds are big and the parking spots are scant. The non-stop Christmas music is wearying. And just when you think you’re gonna save $100 on that flatscreen […]
Unicorn Bites 11/29/13
When I hear about shoppers who die on Black Friday, I worry because my mom is out there right now & she’s probably the one who killed them. — James Breakwell, Exploding Unicorn (@XplodingUnicorn) November […]
A Wal-Mart Thanksgiving
In an effort to thin out the Black Friday riots, big national chain stores are planning again to start on Thanksgiving Day instead. Wal-Mart is even going to launch the madness two hours earlier than […]
Introducing The Suckcess Tax
The fiscal cliff negotiations are heating up and everyone knows that raising new revenue must be part of the picture. We can’t just cut our way out of this mess in the way that you […]
Spray It, Don’t Say It
Manners are an ever-evolving contract that society signed to avoid embarrassing and thoughtless behavior, or what the French termed “faux pas” in between giving English-speakers the wrong directions to the Louvre. Our earliest etiquette rule […]
Apes Renounce Evolution
A woman in Los Angeles pepper sprayed fellow shoppers waiting in line at Walmart on Black Friday so she could get a better shot at an XBOX; a man collapsed in an aisle in a […]