As I type, Wal-Mart is expected to announce its second straight year of declining domestic same-store sales. There is much hand-wringing and bloviating about where Wal-Mart went wrong. In chasing up-market shoppers, have they abandoned their core customer base? In moving more toward specials on specific items, and away from uniformly low prices, have they … Read more
I’ve talked about what I call “red meat” political posts before. They’re fun to write. Generally I think of a zinger or two I’d like to use. That can be a fully-formed sentence that pops in my head, or it can be as simple as two words together I like the sound of. Then I … Read more
Few days pass that I don’t hear some lament, from one quarter or another, about the horrendous state of political debate in the United States. We’re talking past each other. We’re using deplorably hostile language. We’re ignoring that there is so much more that unites us than divides us. We’re more interested in winning the … Read more