I mentioned it a few days ago -- although the academics I sourced got the date wrong on their site -- and since then, Sasha Castel and Pejman Yousefzadeh have hopped on the Anger of Compassion bandwagon.
"It" is, of course, the immorally absurd "Buy Nothing Day," which Sasha lampoons in her own fashion; Pejman does the same, and points out one reason (among others) why such ridiculousness is immoral.
Pejman had the right idea (buying himself a new book or CD today), and so did Scott Wickstein, in Sasha's comments section (buying beer). Why not, thinks I to myself, do both?
So I went to Barnes & Noble and bought Thomas J. DiLorenzo's How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present. Enjoying it immensely.
Now these anticapitalist wackos hold certain companies and products in particular disregard, so let's see how I can get the most enjoyment out of this effort: I could buy the beer at Wal-Mart, I could use a credit card, I could drive around in my gas-guzzling, anti-environmental automobile.
That should do nicely. Go thou and do likewise (or something similar), and be sure to read Sasha and Pejman on a regular basis.