With any luck, you got to sleep in late and indulge in a pot of coffee and maybe biscuits and gravy for breakfast. If you are having a fairly leisurely day (or need something to read on your iPad while waiting for your loved ones to emerge with their Black Friday haul) here you go:

The Origins and Future of the Occupy Movement — from the New Yorker. There’s also a neat sidebar on how Zuccotti Park came to be ground zero of the occupation.

Lest We Forget: Why We Had A Financial Crisis — from Forbes, of all places. The rightwing and corporate effort to deflect responsibility for this mess continues full force and needs a routine corrective.

UC Davis Pepper-Spray Incident Reveals Weakness Up Top — from the Matt Taibbi at the Rolling Stone. Taibbi (via Glenn Greenwald) place the militarization of the police as a result of the WOT. I think that is dead wrong — the militarization of the police started in the WOD. The difference being that the police state is clearly being aimed at everybody — not just communities of color where that kind of oppression is easily approved of.

How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich — also from the Rolling Stone.

Have you read anything else this week that the rest of us should?

Extra credit: How did Black Friday get its name?