Yesterday was what is known as "Black Friday", or the "official" start of the holiday shopping season. It is usually a day I stay away from any kind of retail establishment because frankly, people act like animals at some of these stores. Actually getting up at three in the morning to wait outside Walmart and then once the doors are opened to see hundreds of people running and pushing to get...a color tv and a tickle me Elmo doll? Wow, I wish people would run as fast on that scale to secure their votes, or run to stop war, or perhaps even run to save their planet.