As if MSNBC’s “Are you spending more or less than last holiday season?” survey wasn’t bad enough, they just read an e-mail from a woman named Kathy who plans to spend “over $1,000” on a new XBox for her child on EBay. The correspondent’s response: “You’re a nice Mom, Kathy.”
I guess any low-income women hoping to be nice mothers are out of luck.
Josh Eidelson 
It’s the Linda Mason approach to motherhood.
I think one of the best things to come out of xmas protests is http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/
http://www.adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/
Buying nothing. It’s a great step