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Black Friday

"Black Friday", a marketing invention used to describe the forced, lemming-like "consumer rush" to spend holiday dollars on the day after Thanksgiving, has only been in existence since the 1960's - and even then the use of the term "Black Friday" was only used in advertising circles, and was not publicly known. Now that the term has mindlessly entered the cultural lexicon, and people are being trampled to death over "reduced prices", that's all the more reason to avoid shopping at all on this day, and stay FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD!

Black Friday Stampede Kills Worker At Wal-Mart

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Update: The New York Daily News is now saying that reports of a woman having a miscarriage during a Wal-Mart Black Friday stampede are unfounded.

A 28-year-old pregnant woman was knocked to the floor during the mad rush. She was hospitalized for observation, police said. Early witness accounts that the woman suffered a miscarriage were unfounded, police said.

From The New York Daily News:

A worker died after being trampled and a woman miscarried when hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of a Long Island Wal-Mart Friday morning, witnesses said.

The unidentified worker, employed as an overnight stock clerk, tried to hold back the unruly crowds just after the Valley Stream store opened at 5 a.m.

Additional reports from NY Newsday say the "34-year-old Wal-Mart worker died Friday morning after he was knocked to the ground after 'a throng of shoppers physically broke down the doors,' pushing their way into the store at the Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream, Nassau police said."

The first 40 seconds of the new season of The L Word.

Yes, that is Lucy Lawless. Maybe I'll have to watch afterall.

We all knew she'd ruin the last season somehow.

So, um, OK. The lesbian soap opera we all love to hate, hate to love is now a murder mystery? Even for a show that has already seen babynapping, death, grand theft, imprisonment, bail jumping, arson and countless crimes against fashion, that seems like a bit of a stretch.

Look, I know it's hard to come up with new material after five seasons, but to go straight to killing one character and blaming another for her death seems so, well, Days of Our Lesbians.

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What Harvey Milk Tells Us About Proposition 8

uest blogger Rob Epstein is the director of the Oscar winning film "The Times of Harvey Milk", and is this years' recipient of the International Documentary Association's Pioneer Award.

Thirty years ago on election night Harvey Milk gave an electrifying speech at the "No on Proposition 6" headquarters in the Castro neighborhood of San Francisco. The results were in: Proposition 6 was going down to defeat.

In 1978, Proposition 6 ( "the Briggs Initiative") was the California ballot measure aimed at preventing gay people and supporters from working as teachers in public schools. Harvey Milk was a San Francisco city council member who had been in office for a mere ten months. Through his role in this campaign he proved himself to be more than just an "elected gay official." He was a leader at the height of his powers. When introduced to the crowd that night by Sally Gearhart (another important figure in the fight against Proposition 6), the response to Harvey was thunderous. He proceeded to give one of the greatest speeches of his relatively short political career.

Although there are many parallels to be made between Proposition 6 (1978) and Proposition 8 (2008) there are also many differences. Unlike Proposition 8, Proposition 6 had a name, a face, and a personality as its figurehead in the person of State Senator John Briggs. Briggs came across as a seemingly opportunistic and somewhat ineffectual politician, but regardless of his buffoonery, the issue that he and his supporters tapped into -- "gay teachers" -- was volatile enough to find large-scale support among the electorate. Only one month before the election it looked as if it would be a very close vote, with the majority of California voters in favor of its passage.  (READ)