The Post-Holiday Holidays

It certainly doesn't take long for folks to switch from one holiday mode to another, eh? Last week's frequent references to Thanksgiving have been quickly upstaged in BlogPulse by references to Christmas and all the shopping/decorating activities associated with it.

Among Sunday's key phrases, in fact, three of them are directly tied to the Thanksgiving weekend tradition of gearing up for Christmas, including putting up holiday trees, stringing holiday lights and hanging those decorations.

There were those who started their holiday shopping and those who advocated a boycott of the post-Thanksgiving economic excess, including the AdBusters Buy Nothing Day campaign and a similar campaign in the UK.

Perhaps one of the more bizarre entries in BlogPulse over the Thanksgiving weekend was the tale of Rachelle Waterman, an Alaska teen-ager who solicited the help of her friends to murder her mother. And who then wrote about it in her LiveJournal Diary. Of course, it might possibly be topped by the weekend tale of Kevin Winston, the Newark NJ father who called the cops when his daughter came home drunk and ended up being ratted out by the daughter, who told police about the semi-automatic weapons and cocaine he had stashed in the house.

For the graphically oriented, one of the weekend's top links was this unusual Zoom Quilt. Click and drag your mouse to maneuver through the....well, whatever it is. It's certainly unusual.

Have you ever wondered if there's justice in the small things that happen in life? There is, as this entry from Craig's List confirms. It's Sunday's 28th-ranked link.

TREND GRAPH OF THE DAY: The news from Iraq fluctuates between military assaults and election plans, but the locales change frequently, as the graph that plots Iraq's top cities clearly shows.