Oregon woman Sandi McMillin is Mediaite’s inaugural Patriot of the Week for refusing to compromise comfort, style or integrity to appease a corporate behemoth.

Here’s what went down: McMillin and her sister decided to do a little shopping at a Eugene, Oregon Walmart. To counteract the day’s high temperatures, McMillin donned a pair of red shorts and a bright blue bikini top. She had barely been in the store a few minutes when a store employee allegedly informed her she’d have to either don a shirt or leave. The employee rubbed salt in the wound by citing a possible “health code violation” as the reason McMillin should cover up. McMillin says she was “horrified” as she was escorted from the store.

Today’s Bull and Bears panel– one of several Saturday morning business shows on Fox News– was hot. Not so much in that the debate was particularly heated, or that it exuded an overwhelming aura of sexiness, but that insurance companies are charging so much to put out car fires that a panelist felt the need to set off a fire extinguisher on the set. Hilarity– and lung irritation– ensued.

Yesterday, on his always entertaining Twitter feed, Kanye West tweeted that “they” had banned the proposed art for his upcoming album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Nothing new in the world of popular music but this is one of the first times a censored artist can head right over to his laptop and quickly upload the rejected art as well as a passionate defense of it. This is exactly what West did.

Rush Limbaugh joined the tirade over the proposed Islamic center in lower Manhattan on his radio show today saying that Liberals will allow mosques near Ground Zero but not Walmarts. And he has a point.

Want to experience the frenzy of Black Friday shopping without leaving the comfort (and safety!) of you own home? Welcome Black Friday Twitterers. No doubt by next year someone will have figured out how to crowd source the best sales on Twitter. In the meantime, you can still experience the melee from the safety of our Tweetfinder.