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.
COULD GREED BRING DOWN WAL-MART… In ecology carrying capacity and limiting factors help to determine the health of any functioning ecosystem and the populations it contains. If any one population grows too large and upsets the ecosystem, causing die-off in other populations. Keep reading…
AND THE MOST MISSPELLED WORD IS… …, At least, writes Google, more people type Wallmart instead of Wal-Mart (how Freudian is that?) into the search engine”s query box when they”re looking for all things cheap, plastic and crappy to fill our landfills. According to Google: 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 heathbug. Keep reading…
SHIFTING TO PLAN B FOR GRACIE PAGE… No, not that Plan B. If Gracie Page had been filling a prescription for that medication, she probably wouldn”t have needed to worry about dosage, if she got her prescription filled at all. But a Wal-Mart pharmacist did fill her prescription and gave her a bump in potency: 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 SabiHellson. Keep reading…
CORPORATE WELFARE AT IT”S WORST… There”s now yet another watch to watch: Wal-Mart Subsidy Watch. Brought to us by the folks at Good Jobs First, the website tracks Wal-Mart”s voracious use of public monies to line its oh so private pockets. You thought it was just tax-payer financed health care? Keep reading…
FENDI AND WAL-MART SETTLE SUIT… Nearly a year ago we reported on a lawsuit brought by handbag manufacturer Fendi against Wal-Mart for selling knock-offs of its product. Today Wal-Mart and Fendi settled the suit in a New York court for an undisclosed sum. Here”s the line, from Reuters, that I liked the best. Keep reading…
WAL-MART TO CUSTOMERS: LOAN US MONEY… [Update – 1936 – This thing is worse than I tought. Check out this fine print.] [Update – 1920 – It looks like CNNMoney is a tad late or Wal-Mart”s partner has let the cat out of the bag. I”m grabbing screenshots just in case. Thanks AW.] In yet another end run around banking restrictions, Wal-Mart is going the gift-card boondoggle one better by convincing customers to loan it money, interest free, in the form of pre-paid Visa card. According to CNN Money: Keep reading…
TOO GOOD FOR THE WALLYPLEX… Keep reading…
THE MOTLEY FOOL ON WAL-MART AND DELL… Keep reading…
HEY PETER, CAN YOU TELL US MORE…? Keep reading…
WAL-MART VS. HOMELAND SECURITY… Wal-Mart continues to take hits for its opposition to examining all shipping containers entering the United States. To be fair, Wal-Mart has the most to lose, but so far industries – like rail and chemicals – have avoided sharing the burden. Keep reading…
DUELING BILLIONAIRES… The case of Julie Roehm vs. Wal-Mart just gets more and more twisted. Now another billionaire (who doesn”t work for or own part of Wal-Mart) has gotten involved because he claims Roehm has defamed his character.
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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. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
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. 
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 
