A few months ago I had the privilege of sitting on a panel with Chris Hayes, over at The Nation. We were talking to a bunch of students who hoped to one day be lefty opinion journalists. A woman asked Chris how the a liberal journalists can make a presumably apathetic, and ill-informed public care about liberal issues. Chris gave a beautiful answer–Do your fucking job.
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, Robert Feinman and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile Behemoth’s corporate disinformation and other flackery.
WALMART: WHERE THE THUGS ARE… Are we seeing and reading more about anti-union behavior because of the Employee Free Choice Act? Because of the changes in American leadership? Because vice-president-in-disgrace Dick Cheney is fighting to make torture reasonable? Keep reading…
WALMART”S CREATIVE PRICING NAILED… I was only two cents on a gallon of milk in Texas, but in Arizona the Attorney General has gotten serious about Walmart ripping off the citizens who elected him to be their top cop. Is there any reason to believe that there is anything special about Texas or Arizona? Keep reading…
BREAKING WALMART NEWS FROM TWITTER… Do you Twit err. Tweet? I did for about three weeks and then I figured out that it was about as useful as an ethics manual at a public relations agency. We build our communities through our conversations, but not like this: Keep reading…
DISCONNECTING US FROM OUR LABOR… I write a lot here about amorality of corporations and how that in many ways corporations are at the root of our social and economic disfunctionality. Douglas Rushkoff makes the case in this video encapsulating his soon-to-be-released book: Life. Keep reading…
I”M WITH WALMART ON THIS ONE… The musicians of Green Day have their panties in a bunch because Walmart has declined to carry their CD unless the group remixes the songs so that they don”t earn a Parental Warning label. That”s Walmart”s right as a retailer. Their store, their rules. Keep reading…
IS THIS A FIRST…? [Update — 1725: ICHCB has closed the original thread as well. Still no email response.] I Can Has Cheez Burger has closed comments on it”s latest Walmart sponsored game after only 20 comments (seven of which mentioned Walmart) were posted. I have to wonder if this is a first for the site and what it says about those in charge. Keep reading…
WALMART VS. GREEN DAY… REAX… The Walmart-Is-Censoring-Green-Day meme is grabbing traction but there”s no merit in the claim. Freedom of the press belongs to the person who owns the press. There is no censorshipt here. Here”s a sampling of the 549,000 Google hits on the story. Keep reading…
EXPANDING THE URBAN GARDEN DEBATE… While not strictly a Walmart story, we have discussed urban gardening in light of Chicago”s food deserts. I did come across Siobhan O”Connor”s piece on plans to build two very large urban gardens in Detroit. Like any good idea, there are always challenges. Keep reading…
WHAT WOULD A WALTON DRIVE…? There is perhaps no more important piece of the Sam Walton mythology than his Ford F-150 pickup truck. Even after he was a billionaire, Sam continued to drive the truck now enshrined in Walmart”s vistor center in Bentonville, Arkansas. Keep reading…
RIOTS DELAY WALMART-INDIA OPENING… No, the rioters are not protesting the opening of the Walmart-entrant into India”s market place -although others have – but civil violence in Northern India state of Punjab has convinced the world”s largest retailer to wait a few weeks. Keep reading…
WALMART TOYS ARE LOSS LEADERS…? Walmart vehemently denies Toy Directory Monthly”s story that it plans to reduce the amount of space given in its toy department as part of its attempt to make the stores faster, friendlier and cleaner. You can read the whole story at TD Monthly. Keep reading…
Out, damn’d spot! out, I say!-One; two: why, then
’tis time to do’t.-Hell is murky.-Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and
afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our
pow’r to accompt?-Yet who would have thought the old man to
have had so much blood in him?
Another bit of Pollan advice? Don’t eat food with health claims. You don’t see labels on the broccoli at the grocery store that promise lots of cancer-fighting antioxidants. Yet we all know that pretty much anything you find in the produce department is good for you in more ways than modern science has even discovered.
But what about the processed goji-acai-pomegranate crap in the middle of the grocery store that promises to improve your health? Guess what? Goji berries or pomegranates might be good for you, but anything that is refined grains plus sugar plus fat plus goji berries is going to outweigh the benefit of the goji (the real food) with all of the refined carbs and unhealthy fats they mix it with. So, go ahead, Big Food. Give it a try. No more health claims on your packaging. Try that.
Why is this tsunami of stupidity so irritating to me? I think it has a lot to do with one of the more recent moronic convergences I found on some 2012 site. One that supposedly aligned the Maya’s 2012 thing with the Hopi end-times prophecy. The best cultural explanation I found for this flowering of idiocy said that New Age fads like the Hopi prophecy and 2012 are a kind of cultural colonialism in which white people endow the minorities they have wiped out or repressed with mystical powers made more mysterious by their virtual vanishing.
I am trapped in a 25 year-old’s fantasy with a body thirty years her senior. And oh, what a busy and physically challenging three decades it has been. At my stage of life, is there even time for foreplay. Or maybe there’s up to three hours of it if his erectile dysfunction drug goes wrong.
Or maybe he’ll need three hours of intercourse…oh but the brain reels at the thought. And speaking of those little blue pills, should I just assume all the guys my age who are seducing women my age (there must be two or three, at least!) are taking them?
Call me crazy or perhaps naïve on this one point, but do guys feel horny before they take the pill, or is the whole experience just another pharmaceutical experience for my generation? Well, gee, that is romantic, isn’t it? I just hope my potential partner takes it in secret rather than leaving it on the bedside table with a glass of water. Taking his top denture out and putting it in the glass of water would be a bigger turn on.
Details on the just-foiled terror plot to destroy Bronx Jewry as well as shoot down airplanes are unclear, but they appear to follow a typical pattern. A disgruntled loser goes on the Web in order to vent his frustrations with America. The person to whom he is speaking sees a means of cashing in–either because he is facing charges himself or wants a reward. He contacts the FBI with his story and becomes CW-1 (Complaining Witness One).
The FBI wires up his home like a Christmas tree and then the CW invites the disgruntled guy and his pals over. The disgruntled (now defendants) want to do something to America because of Afghanistan. The CW does not suggest petitions or letters to the editor. The talk turns to bombs and destruction. But the disgruntled have no bombs, no weapons, no training, and would probably settle for some good internet porn. Never fear, the CW becomes the deux ex machina of terrorism. Safe house? Got one right here. Bombs and guns? No problema. C-4 and stinger missiles? Might take a little while.
All the time, the FBI is supplying bogus materials and the CW is keeping the plot together, while the tapes roll.
It”s time somebody had some sense. Major League Baseball may have struck the first blow to end the life of Chief Wahoo.
It”s overdue that the Cleveland Indians buried Chief Wahoo, a racist emblem that brings shame to the baseball team and the city of Cleveland.
Maybe Mayor Frank Jackson should speak out. Maybe City Council should act against this racist insignia.
C”mon, Dolans, do away with this blemish on Cleveland.
I guess Major League Baseball is saying just that. MLB nixed the Indians” cap with a stars-and-strip emblem depicting Chief Wahoo with the American flag and its stars and stripes. The new hat design is meant to honor U. S. service people, making it even more repugnant.
Please end this obnoxious racist and ugly team emblem.
I ventured downtown Monday and was shocked by what I saw. Or what I didn”t see.
Cleveland – a virtual ghost city. At 11 a.m. At a crossroads of downtown at East 9th Street and Euclid Avenue.Scary empty.
I took the new so-called Health Line down Euclid from University Hospitals. First venture on it. The machines used for purchasing tickets are very confusing. I finally solved it with the help of a woman who was awaiting the bus. Then I learned you could make the ticket purchase on the bus. Confusing to a first-timer.
It took about 17 to 18 minutes to ride from Euclid at University Hospitals to East 9th Street. I think it was a minute to three less time than it used to take. Not exactly a great time-saver for some $200 million. Time saving was one reason RTA cited for doing the project. Continue Reading »
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