Black Friday. The day after Thanksgiving. Clumping two deadly sins into a four-day weekend: gluttony (feasting on turkey, stuffing and football) followed by covetousness (trampling Wal-Mart employees to death to get our sinful hands on a $99 DVD player). Oh, and if you include Cyber Monday in the festivities, you can add another deadly sin into the mix: sloth (people too lazy to brave the shopping malls for those $99 DVD players). Ah, what a blessed holiday!
But that’s not what I wanted to focus on. I was watching the 10:00 news on Friday night and the newscaster said that sales on Black Friday were up 4% compared to last year. “Wow, maybe the recession isn’t so bad if people are still willing to blow wads of cash on unnecessary junk!” Then the newspaper arrived the next morning to alert its readers that sales on Black Friday were down this year. Obviously, it was looking at the state results versus the local TV news reporting national stats, but it made me wonder:
Which source reflects the media’s liberal bias?
Or maybe they were trying to make us all look like sinnier sinners by accusing us of covetousness and sloth at the same time: “You all wanted too much stuff, but you locals were too lazy to buy it!” Personally, I’m gonna stick with gluttony and start working on the leftovers that are packed into the fridge…
“Sinnier sinners” – That’s funny 🙂