Online Obama T-shirt sales are booming. Walk down the streets of San Francisco, and you’ll see plenty of evidence of Obama’s popularity, mostly in the form of T-shirts, which remain a hot item weeks after the election. “Not too long ago,” said Cowlin, “if you wanted to wear a T-shirt of a candidate, you were pretty much limited to getting it at campaign headquarters. Now, with the Internet, this is the first time they’ve been available on such a large scale.” Urban Outfitters has been selling T-shirts with Obama’s face for months, since well before the primaries. Asked if sales are down now, Caitlin Reno at the Bancroft Street store in Berkeley said, “Oh, no. We’re selling even more now. People are constantly coming in asking for them.”

After deadly shopping day, Wal-Mart reviews Black Friday plans. As shoppers returned over the weekend to the Valley Stream Wal-Mart  where the chaos of this year’s Black Friday resulted in death and mayhem, shoppers echoed the sentiments of the Nassau County Police detective supervising the investigation, who told reporters in the aftermath of Jdimytai Damour’s death that the store could have and should have better prepared for the large crowds that camped out as early as 9 p.m. the night before for the post-Thanksgiving bargains. Read the rest here.  

Iowa café deluged with “Obama cookie” requests

. Ever since word spread about the Obamas’ fondness for Baby Boomers’ chocolate chunk cookies, the small downtown Des Moines restaurant has been bombarded with requests. “Two months ago I was giving these cookies away,” co-owner Rodney Maxfield told The Associated Press. “Now, it’s like, ‘I need two dozen cookies. I need four-dozen cookies.’” Read the rest here.

A Web site purported to be collecting $1 million to help Kilpatrick pay off his fine

Beware, if you were planning to send a donation to help Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pay off his court-ordered $1 million restitution. Somebody has set up a special Web site, purportedly to collect contributions for the disgraced mayor, who was sentenced to four months in prison and five years probation, in addition to the fine and his forced resignation. But a spokesman for Kilpatrick says that hizzoner is not connected to the site in any way. Find out what he had to say at BET.com/News.