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, Peter Sayles and I continue our work dedicated to drawing back the curtain on the Bentonvile Behemoth’s corporate disinformation and other flackery.
A WAL-MART BY ANY OTHER NAME… I”m not sure who is fooling whom here. It never mattered if you were driving a Chevy, a Buick, an Oldsmobile or a Cadillac, you knew that you were driving a General Motors product. The name doesn”t matter. And the stock price wouldn”t suffer. Keep reading…
PROFITING FROM OTHERS” SUFFERRING… I”m really getting disgusted by all the Wall Street gnomes doing Snoopy happy dances over Wal-Mart”s bump in sales because people who have been living on the edge in a nose-diving economy are forced to spend the dollars they have left in their pockets at Wal-Mart. 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 xWALxMARTx. Keep reading…
BOUGHT WITH DESPERATION IN AMERICA… Those who also read my primary blog – Have Coffee Will Write – know that every morning I post a humorous, or thought provoking, bit to start off the day. The vast majority are from my dad, but occasionally other readers contribute. as well. Keep reading…
WORSHIPING AT THE HOUSE OF WAL-MART… As the economy that will be President George Bush”s second legacy – the death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan will be the first – continues south, I was struck by the poignancy of a decision by the city council of Carlinville, Illinois, to not allow a zoning change for an abandoned Wal-Mart. Keep reading…
SOMEBODY IS LYING HERE… It seems to me that I”m seeing more and more financial stories where the reporter has no clue what they are writing about or asking any kind of questions that seek clarification on the fuzzy and obfuscated. The big story this morning about China is a case in point. Keep reading…
CUSTOMER TRAINING IN ELECTRONICS… The function of workers at Wal-Mart is to stock the shelves. There are many who take great pride in what they do, take the time to learn as much as they can about their departments and the products they”re responsible for. Keep reading…
LIVE BY THE SHELF… DIE BY THE SHELF… In agriculture farmers talk about the dangers of monocultures – crops with little or no genetic diversity where a new virus can wipe out 90 percent or more of a crop with no resistance. Cott has learned that a lack of diversity in customers can be just as devistating. Keep reading…
SO WHY IS WAL-MART THRIVIING…? Daniel Gross asks the question this morning on Slate under the headline The Wal-Mart Puzzle. Gross gets it and nails four reasons why Wal-Mart looks so attrative to the Wall Street gnomes and the gamblers who hang on their every word. Keep reading…
Two days ago a fire engulfed the 
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is 
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. This week he brings you some amazing animal photography: 
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. 
