Death By Shopping

In the dark hours of Friday morning, while I was sleeping off my food indulgences of the day before, in the doorway of a WalMart on Long Island, Jdimytai Damour was trampled to death by insane shoppers, desperate to beat one another to the "hottest deals of the season."

I'm working on a piece about this that I'll post on Butting Heads a little bit later, but in the meantime here are some links:

Reverend Billy's Comments

From the NY Times (which you actually have to go through an ad for)

A perspective from across the pond

And a quote from a co-worker... echoing what seems to have become the universal excuse lifted from the speeches of the Pretender In Chief for the last eight years (spoken after 9/11, after Katrina, and after the stock market crash)... “How could you know something like that would happen? No one expected something like that.”