What is it with this insane hatred of Wal-Mart? San Diego is the latest city going off the deep end:
Supporters of the ban argued that Wal-Mart puts smaller competitors out of business, pays workers poorly, and contributes to traffic congestion and pollution. Opponents said the mega-retailer provides jobs and low prices and that a ban would limit consumer choice.
Women talk more than men. Use more words. Says so here. Big surprise.
I don't care much one way or the other about the woman who put the peace-sign Christmas wreath on her house. I suspect we might differ on politics, but that's what makes life interesting. What's more than a little annoying is the attempted smackdown by her howeowners association:
Dang. Who knew worldwide peace was so easy?
Yoko Ono is calling for the anniversary of the death of her husband, John Lennon, to become a day of worldwide healing.
In a full-page advertisement appearing in Sunday editions of The New York Times, Ono urges readers to mark the anniversary by apologizing to those who have suffered because of violence and war.
Well, we've had women's studies and black studies and lesbian studies and disability studies and ethnic studies, none aimed at a real education, all just full of "victims" railing againts the larger oppressive society. So this should come as no great surprise:
A sign of the changing times:
In many companies, the year-end bonus is becoming a quaint memory of earlier times, when an extra envelope from payroll in December was an almost certain reward for everyone in a firm.
If no purpose would be served in sending George Weller to prison, what purpose was served in trying him in the first place?
Henry Kissinger says we can't win in Iraq:
If you mean, by 'military victory,' an Iraqi government that can be established and whose writ runs across the whole country, that gets the civil war under control and sectarian violence under control in a time period that the political processes of the democracies will support, I don't believe that is possible.
Here we go. Everywhere but in the home, and can that be far behind?
Belmont is set to make history by becoming the first city in the nation to ban smoking on its streets and almost everywhere else.
Here's a million dollars. Now shut up and go away:
Target Corp. (TGT) is slipping $1 million into The Salvation Army's kettle, but it still won't allow the familiar holiday bell-ringers in front of its stores.
This will be the third year that Target has banned the bell-ringers from its stores.
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