It’s been a busy week in Wally World: the Universe’s source of cheap plastic crap. On The Writing On The Wal — the blog USA Today says should be on its readers’ radar — Jonathan Rees and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile Behemoth’s corporate disinformation and other flackery.

WALMART AND THE LAST OF DAYS…? Sometimes the associations made with Walmart – through no direct fault of its own – amaze me. I discussed Walmart stealth story last week, but never in my most twisted imaginings would I have though of this link at Last Day Watchers. Keep reading…

WALMART FAILS TO BREECH CHICAGO”S WALL… I would not want to be an aide in Mayor Richard Daley”s office this week. I can imagine more than a little throwing of paperweights and the hurling of non-public language after Chicago City Council”s rebuff of the Mayor Richard Daley”s support for Walmart. Keep reading…

I LOVE READING COMMENTS… The automatic assumption that anyone who disagrees with your world is a waste of snail slime started with Jane Curtin and Dan Akroyd. What began as a Saturday Night Live comedic mainstay has morphed into the norm for American faux discourse. Keep reading…

REAL PEOPLE, REAL ISSUES, REAL THINKING… I don”t agree with Arlene Jones on many points, but I want all our readers to visit her blog and think about what she has written about Walmart in Chicago. Clearly, Jones is a woman who is on the street and thinking about her community. That is far too rare. Keep reading…

DALEY TO WALMART: EXPLETIVE DELETED… The lede in the New York Times story by Dan Mihalopoullos and Katie Fretland does not bode well for Walmart in Chicago specifically or for Walmart in Urban America generally. Is it possbile that Walmart has finally hit the imovable wall? Keep reading…

AT THE WALLY PLEX… There are sound stages on Hollywood”s back lots smaller than Bentonvile”s behemoths, so it”s no surprise that budding video talent has been sneaking cameras in at odd hours. And now for the midnight show at the Wally Plex featuring jamesjewell3. Keep reading…

BEWARE OF CONSORTIUMS… As people in the organic foods industry have learned, large corporations that are not pleased with pre-existing standards are not adverse to creating their own astro-turfing bodies to give them the stamp of approval for doing what they already do. Keep reading…

WHEN LOWEST PRICE ISN”T THE KEY ISSUE… I wrote about the Mihalopoulos and Fretland piece in the New York Times on Friday, but in case you didn”t make it deeper into the story than Mayor Richard Daley”s expletive deleted moment, there is also a clear racial angle that I don”t want to ignore. Keep reading…

THIS IS FUNNY…? Clowns are scary. Really, really scary. So scary that there is even a name for being scared of clowns: Coulrophobia. Who are kids more likely to remember Clarabell and Bozo or Cheezo, Bippo and Dippo? Score one for unicorns.
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DO WE GET THE RETAILER WE DESERVE…? There is a legitimate argument in politics that we get the government we deserve; that if we don”t take an active role in the political decisions of our government, then we have no one to blame but ourselves when politicians go bad (see Democrats in Congress).
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