This Thanksgiving was a far cry from the gentle early settlers who opened up the great North American Continent.
For them, heads were reverently bowed in prayer as they thanked God that they had survived their first year as pilgrim colonists and praise was offered for what little they had.
Turn the clock forward and three centuries later we have Black Friday.
Even before the turkey was digested America witnessed an unseemly rush to the malls that resulted in pepper spray assaults, two shootings, innumerable tramplings and the death of a shopper suffocated in a check-out crush.
Ah, dear forefathers, was this what you braved the perils of the oceans and the privations of the wilderness to see?
But friends, be encouraged, coinciding with the great mall stampede, was the launch of the "Curiosity". This was a space vehicle sent to explore Mars in detail.
Perhaps when we have thoroughly and finally ruined this planet we can all take off to Mars and do the same thing again 40 million miles from here?
Ian
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