Sweet medicine

摘要

I'm writing this on Giving Tuesday (Nov. 29). A Manhattan community center launched this annual day of philanthropy four years ago to offset the rampant consumerism that starts before Thanksgiving and continues relentlessly through Christmas. And then, if you think about it, comes New Year's Day sales and President's Day sales. Valentine's Day. Memorial Day. Fourth of July. In the U.S., every day is buying day.