Okay, I get that most morning cable news teams aren’t exactly known for their gentle touch. And Morning Joe is no exception. But a particularly ham-handed segment they aired this morning left my mouth agape.

The end of Thanksgiving weekend is upon us. Time to trod on forwards into the holiday season! Today’s dossier prepares you for just that.

By many accounts, it would seem like Black Friday was a total disaster — from a record-breakingly bad stock market to utter chaos in stores. But it was actually America’s best shopping day ever. What is going on here?!

A working mother writes today in Forbes that she’s disturbed because her 7-year-old daughter says she wants to be a stay-at-home Mom when she grows up.

We don’t descend into household politics all too often — frankly, we’re more interested in what goes in on the boardroom — and right here, that’s exactly the point.

Is Europe anti-Chinese? A Chinese billionaire saw his attempt to buy a big chunk of Icelandic land surprisingly rejected this week, in a move he’s saying is reflective of Europeans opposing Chinese business. But more surprisingly, Iceland’s prime minister seems to agree with him — the rejection was based on a very narrow interpretation of the law, she says.

EOD, the post-turkey edition. Today we learned about the latest Madoff associate to land in hot water, we found proof that Black Friday might lead to the downfall of America (kind of) and we mourned a six-figure Louis Vuitton heist. Recline further into your parents’ couch and read on.

I don’t want to say that Occupy Wall Street’s upcoming benefit album is predictable per se… but it’s really difficult to come up with another word for it.

U.K. pop singer Nicola Roberts thinks more women should get into the business world. Great! She also thinks part of the reason more women aren’t in business is because we lack confidence. Wait, what?

Can we all agree this is the week when everyone lost his or her mind? Across the country, we put the “ack” in “Black Friday” — and just round the bend from our Mogulite offices, an angry mob broke into a Hollister store and ran off with piles of clothing (Hollister. Really.).

And, as though that weren’t godawful enough, we have a new reason to tear at our hair.

One time I met someone who said they owned a fur-lined Maybach. I probably won’t ever meet anyone who says that again, especially since Daimler Chrysler just announced they’re discontinuing the über-flashy luxury automobile that can cost millions.