Walmart pushes Black Friday to 8PM on Thanksgiving. Is nothing sacred?
It's only been a week since Halloween, and just two days since the election. But it's already time to talk about Thanksgiving.
Specifically everyone's favorite shopping day: Black Friday
Today Walmart announced this year's Black Friday will actually begin on Thursday November 22 – Thanksgiving Day – at 8PM to let customers get a jump on the holiday shopping.
Now I love Christmas. It's my favorite holiday. But really? Is nothing sacred anymore? FULL POST
U.S. aid to Ethiopia helping neither us nor Ethiopians
Yesterday, the body of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi arrived in Ethiopia from Brussels. No one is sure yet how he died, but that's part of the secrecy which shrouded his authoritarian rule.
The story matters to America because Ethiopia's dictator was an ally in the fight against Al Qaeda in Somalia. Thanks to that allegiance, the US looked the other way on things like how the Zenawi regime jailed opposition leaders and journalists, and led Ethiopia to a ranking of 174 out of 187 countries in the Human Development Index, which measures human rights.
We saw what an african police state looked like when I was in Ethiopia last month. FULL POST
Selling 'The Scream' and suggesting a great new author
By Erin Burnett
"The Scream," a painting by Edvard Munch, could become the most expensive painting ever sold.
It's up for auction at Sotheby's, here in New York City, today. Art experts expect it to sell for anywhere between $80 million and $150 million. That would smash the current auction record of $106 million paid for a Picasso in 2010.
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