Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! I did. We can’t ignore, though, the bad things that have happened over the course of the holiday break—first, the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, and second, the deaths of a few people the morning of Black Friday.

Mostly everyone condemns terrorism and has a multitude of problems with it by now, so I want to turn the American consumer’s attention to the Black Friday incident at a Long Island Walmart. As he was opening the doors, a man died as he was trampled on by people rushing into the store.

It’s not inherently bad to want to get some better deals on a Friday morning. (I actually really enjoy Black Friday.) But what’s bad is selfishness to the point of totally ignoring everybody around you and even stepping on someone in order to achieve a goal. If you’re a friend of mine reading my blog, you wouldn’t do this, but even so, it’s really sad to hear that something like this happened. I mean, this guy was a temporary worker there that morning just trying to earn some money and get his job done, and terrible, unreasonable things happen to him. Obviously he wasn’t murdered, but he was killed by the ignorance and selfishness of others. Don’t let this happen around you. They should have just done the whole lining up deal like we have around here to prevent such inane tragedies.