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...week before the holiday. Lo and behold, the last week in October, I saw a shift from pumpkins and scarecrows to elves and ornaments - not a costume in sight, and Thanksgiving had just been left in the dust. It's disheartening that holidays have become a retailer's trap for the consumer and that we've lost their real meaning altogether. I am trying desperately to separate the real from the retail for my 2-year-old son. I had to chuckle while reading the article because just a couple of days before, he and I walked into a store...
...week before the holiday. Lo and behold, the last week in October, I saw a shift from pumpkins and scarecrows to elves and ornaments--not a costume in sight, and Thanksgiving had just been left in the dust. It's disheartening that holidays have become a retailer's trap for the consumer and that we've lost their real meaning altogether. I had to chuckle while reading the article because just a couple of days before, my son and I walked into a store that was decorated for Christmas and he pointed excitedly and said, "Mama, look at the Halloween...
...campaign ritual--fielding questions by Tim Russert on Meet the Press. His famous interview style seeks to trap politicians with their own words. But does the technique shed light on the candidates or does it require them to spend time providing context for their previous statements, crowding out more meaningful queries? It was Barack Obama's turn on Nov. 11; the previous week, Fred Thompson's. The Russert ratio of gotcha to substance questions...
...respond constructively to the Yankees’ defeat? How can we avoid the trap of overconfidence and poor starting pitching...
With conservatives, she is caught in an inescapable trap of acrimony. The two things they most dislike about her are her liberalism and (what they consider) her phoniness. When she adopts a standard left-wing position, it is taken as confirmation of her plans to impose a Euro-socialism on America. When she takes a more moderate position, it is taken as confirmation that she is hiding her true plans behind dastardly artifice. Either way, she evokes conservative scorn...