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“Black Friday.” What a charming addition to the Christmas lexicon.
I know it’s been used for a number of years in relation to retailers’ profitability, but when did it become common parlance outside of that circle? Black (pick any day of the week) generally commemorates a negative event, catastrophe or atrocity that occurred on that particular day. Add to that usage the reports of shoppers assaulting one another in a frenzy of unbridled greed and perhaps Black Friday makes perfect sense. What is perplexing is the complete lack of irony in its near-universal application this season.
