Thanksgiving Thoughts: Family Trumped by Black Friday

Posted on November 28, 2010

WhiteCoat’s Call Room has always been one of my most favorite weblogs purely because of the human touch it brings to its posts. In the post Thanksgiving Thoughts he moves away from all the media mania about Balck Friday and all it materialistic jingoism to actually root for family over material joy. Now seeing all the madness, the twitter trends, the FB updates about this whole issue being blown out of proportion, I have to say that this stands out in stark contrast. And stands out to teach us all a lesson.

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