Hard as it is to believe, there are some things that money can't buy. From the good gray pages of the Wall Street Journal, that coxswain of American capital, comes this tale of the Yuletide marketplace. Major television networks, the Journal reports, have declined to air a spot by activists advocating a "Buy Nothing Day" to counter Christmas materialism. According to CBS, the advertisement is, at its core, "in opposition to the current economic policy in the United States." So let the network carolers string the Stalinists up from a sturdy blue spruce with a garland of popcorn. Damn free speech and bring on... More >>>