Editor’s Note: Hope Mongers

“Get a head start on the holidays, folks, and get your Wii while we have them!”

Wiis sell for — what? — 500 bucks? If I hadn’t already invested a pretty fair amount of time in the shopping trip, I might have walked out in protest with a resounding harummpppfff, leaving my basket full of store brands and generic equivalents right there in the aisle.