Items of the day

• Funnies one liner - John J. DiIulio for his characterization of the the Bush administration as "the reign of the Mayberry Machiavellis"
• This post by the Agitator :
  

  Better people who are well-employed decide for the urban poor that they don't need those jobs. And that they should be shopping at more tasteful stores, anyway.

  I think that maybe -- just maybe -- anti-Wal Mart sentiment has more to do with an aversion to the white, rural ethnology the store sometimes represents than its labor practices. We can't have our Ethiopian restaurants and esoteric bookstores blighted by NASCAR culture.