Let’s face it, a large part of our population is going to go shopping on Friday.  Netbooks, iPods, iPhones, those little foamy things that you lose from your iPod earphones, they’re gonna be big-big-big.  My question is, when did this suddenly become a national obsession? Stores used to open at 6am on Friday, and now they’re opening on Thanksgiving.  Gotta have that combo printer/backgammon board, after all.

Everywhere you turn, you see stories (like this one) about how big it’s going to be.  Did this date get made into a legitimate national holiday?   If so, are there Hallmark cards?  If there are no Hallmark cards, then there can be no holiday.  (This discussion sounds very Seinfeld-ish.)  But you know it’s become a National Day of Importance..when it has a website.   Check all the ads..right here.  And good luck. I’ll be right here watching the streaming video from breathless CNBC reporters stationed at malls all over New Jersey.