Consuming is deadly! Read the appalling story.

I received a thought-provoking cartoon from Cagle, the cartoonists' site, together with an article, an excerpt from which is reproduced below.

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, Unfortunately
by Connie Schultz -

Only hours after we celebrated the national holiday for giving thanks, a mob broke through the electronic doors of a Wal-Mart in Mineola, N.Y., and trampled to death a store clerk named Jdimytai Damour.

Damour was 6 feet 5 inches tall and weighed 270 pounds, but he was no match for the wave of willful disregard that forced him to the ground and proceeded to stomp him to death.

These people sound like terrorists, but news reports assure us that these were just shoppers looking for bargains. For Christmas.

You know, "For unto us, a child is born." That Christmas.

So far, no one has come forward to admit a role in this man's death. Officials said it will be hard to identify the hundreds of people who mowed over Damour. Hard to prove recklessness or intent to harm, too.

I'll leave it to those who are trained in such matters to explain how human beings could march across a man's body for a cheaper flat-screen TV. There are dark spots on some souls that no amount of light can illuminate, and sometimes the only consolation in the wake of such human ugliness is my inability to understand it.