Learned from level_head who learned it from rowyn that at a Wal-Mart in Valley Stream, an employee was stampeded to death by a mob awaiting the store's early opening. Do read the story if it is not familiar to you ( Read more... )

Here are some thoughts of mine on the matter of the Real Estate market correction and its consequences ( Read more... )

I am tired of hearing from advertisers how I can "save up to N or more." It's either up to "N" or it's "N" or more. But the phrase as uttered does not establish "N" as either an upper or lower limit, it merely appears to. In this construction "N" is merely some arbitrary number pulled out of the marketing wonk's asshole, which, incidentally, is ( Read more... )

According to The New York Times(free registration required), Walmart has been locking its overnight workers in, with no way of getting out, and admonishing them never to use the fire exit unless there is an actual fire ( Read more... )

Well, by this time, Thanksgiving has been and gone. Leftover turkey waits (or lurks) in the fridge until such time as it is redeployed as "another Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat," and the countdown has begun: N shopping days left until . . . The Holiday Which Must Not Be Named ( Read more... )