From John Lowder: I was in one of the circles of hell, the Wal-Mart on Hanes Mall Blvd., when I spied two signs by the doors to the employee section. One was "motivational" and the other a sign posted above the computer terminals to be used by job applicants. First, motivational: Today's Stock Quote, 57.67. Tomorrow Depends [...]...

I saw this on AmericaBlog a few weeks ago. This 20-minute long tape doesn't really count as vegetarian propaganda (as Bittman's message is eat LESS meat), but it will do for my purposes: And yes, I know that even Al Gore won't tackle meat eating as a contributing cause of global warming, but he doesn't [...]...

An interesting chart via economist Mark Thoma's blog: I think the interesting thing to note is that that "transportation" is such a small cost. I'm a bit concerned about the catchall 39% called labor. The underlying white paper doesn't help much, but it only three pages if you want to take a look. FRB Report on high [...]...

Art Carden thinks that your backyard ends at your property line. If there is a real or potential nuisance that is not in your actual backyard, well, just suck it up and let those whose backyards are actually effected decide if the nuisance is a problem or not. Specially when the perceived nuisance is that paragon [...]...

Brian White writes the Wal-Mart Weekly column over at Blogging Stocks. It's a good column (for a business blog), and I certainly agree that the subject of Wal-Mart deserves a column, but this week he wrote something really, really stupid. What's surprising is that the title of the column is something I agree [...]...