Berkeley Bowl, Berkeley, California, today. Desperately rude people ramming into one another with shopping carts in the aisles, unthinkingly and agitatedly bumping people in wheelchairs (more than once?!) The parking lot had an altercation--someone upset that they can't get their organic raddicio home in time for the making of NYE vegan party dip? Yeah, the outside full of desperate SUV holiday grocery zealots, the inside? The same. In any case, I came away with such a bad taste in my mouth for people who are so desperately isolated from each other that they go shopping to feel connected by ramming each other with shopping carts.

Well, looks like everyone is following orders by shopping to save the regime here in a America:

thinkprogress.org/2006/12/2...-shopping/