Column: Black Friday Blues

The Thanksgiving evening and middle of the night Black Friday sales at big retailers really should just go away.

When I woke up Friday morning, I wanted to get a couple hours of work done so I could enjoy some time off, and before I started writing stories I was perplexed by reading a story about the chaos that ensued at a mall in Alabama. The mall was closed after a fight and this was one of many incidents across the country. These things can get really ugly and downright scary. Watching the videos of the way people act is horrifying. People are losing their minds over sale prices and it is r...