Get used to Black Thursday  Published: Thursday, November 29,
2012 at 8:34 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 29, 2012 at
8:34 p.m.  Disgust was my first reaction after learning that
many of America's biggest stores would open Thanksgiving Day so
shoppers could get a start on Christmas shopping.  "I can't
imagine spending one minute of my Thanksgiving inside some big-
box store full of frenzied shoppers," I declared.  I wondered
how the thousands of clerks and sales people and cashiers must
have felt losing all or part of their holiday to cater to rabid
shoppers in search of door-buster bargains.  But after more
thought, my feelings turned to ambivalence. If people want to
shop on Thanksgiving, why should I care? I have no bone to pick
with them, and who am I to judge, anyway?  As I read and watched
news reports of employee protests and petitions against having
to work the holiday, my sympathies diminished.  I've spent a lot
of holidays in the newsroom putting together the paper or out in
the community rep