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Black Friday. Deals. Amazon.

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Today is Black Friday, which means not only that you might be eating some turkey leftovers, but that it’s now only about a month to Christmas. It also means there are sales at Amazon, and that if you click on this link and buy something, I’ll be receiving a percentage and it won’t cost you a penny more than it otherwise would have. It’s like a free donation to neo-neocon.

Another way to do it is to click on any of the Amazon widgets on the blog’s right sidebar to get to Amazon and place your orders. In case you have ad blocker or something of that sort, and the Amazon widgets don’t show up on your computer, go here. You can also click on any Amazon book link within a post and anything you order during that click-through gets credited to me. I believe it’s true even for things you put in your cart but don’t order till a bit later, although there’s a time limit on how long they can be there and still get credited when ordered (I’m not sure what that limit is, though, so best to order sooner rather than later).

Thanks!

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Black Friday. Deals. Amazon. — 6 Comments

  2. “Black” Friday is a wonderfully ironic title. The day represents America at its worst. Vicious, self-serving, greedy, angry, stupid, immoral and violent.
    Reminds me of Black Lives Matter.And riots in Ferguson.
    Not a whole lot of Enlightenment evident.
    Part of the Great Downward Spiral.

  5. I’m with Frog on the irony in “Black Friday”.

    And I had thought the reason for the term was because it was when retailers’ ledgers went from “red” to “black,” but according to this piece that’s not the case — from a 1961 article in a public relations newsletter that uses “Black Friday” in its current meaning:

    For downtown merchants throughout the nation, the biggest shopping days normally are the two following Thanksgiving Day. Resulting traffic jams are an irksome problem to the police and, in Philadelphia, it became customary for officers to refer to the post-Thanksgiving days as Black Friday and Black Saturday. Hardly a stimulus for good business, the problem was discussed by the merchants with their Deputy City Representative, Abe S. Rosen, one of the country’s most experienced municipal PR executives. He recommended adoption of a positive approach which would convert Black Friday and Black Saturday to Big Friday and Big Saturday. …

    …the story of businesses getting “back in the black” on Black Friday doesn’t start appearing until the 1980s. So the “back in the black” explanation was clearly a way to rebrand Black Friday with more positive connotations. It’s worth noting that all of the historical predecessors for the modern Black Friday were negative events. One early “Black Friday” was on Dec. 6, 1745, when news of the landing in Scotland of Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to the throne, was publicized in London. “Black Friday” was also used to describe financial panics of 1869 and 1873.

    So, it coulda been Big Friday!

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