Red Heart Junk Day

I'm tired of all the red heart junk today. Stupid cliches everywhere. Cheap chocolates, garish cards, silly rubbish. St. Valentine was imprisoned and executed for his beliefs. What has all this got to do with him?

And you gotta love the guilt trips the commercials lay on you. "If you really love someone, you should buy them things." So if you can't afford anything, you don't really love them? Or maybe the idea is that they might love you more if you give them things?

How about some social justice instead of more cheap, mass produced consumer goods or things with ridiculously artificially inflated prices like diamonds? The human suffering involved with their production hasn't got a damn thing to do with love.