Editor’s Note: Hope Mongers

What of Thanksgiving? Three weeks out and you’re lucky to find a dusty, anemic selection of cards commemorating this humble holiday of gratitude shoved unceremoniously into the far left-hand side of the shelves, pushed aside by the glittery green-and-red onslaught of Christmas greetings.

Yesterday while I was grocery shopping, with a jumble of coupons leaving a trail of cents-off offers behind me as I compared unit prices, a voice came over the loudspeaker announcing that the store “has Wii consoles!”