Walmart is scared that a rising Democratic tide might mean a reinvigorated labor movement. And when Walmart is scared, we should all be scared, right? Because Walmart is America. And organized labor is the Soviet Union. Or something.
Once again, via Stephen at cogitamus. I’m telling you, if you’re not reading that blog, you should be. Although, come to think of it, if you start, my links will be even more boring. Hmm, I seem to be trapped on the horns of a dilemma.
The Edge of the American West 
12 comments
August 1, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Levi Stahl
You’re only free to write with that sort of confidence, Ari, because the union organizers haven’t come around to try to organize your blog. If Obama’s elected, within days you’ll be forced to share some of your insane profits with your co-bloggers.
Or I guess you could threaten shutter your blog factory in Davis and move the blog to a low-wage country instead?
August 1, 2008 at 1:05 pm
bitchphd
I like the claim that business organizations are the underdog.
August 1, 2008 at 2:12 pm
andrew
Your link to cogitamus is currently a link to the WSJ. I can only assume this is unintentional, though the last two sentences of the post make me wonder if other forces are at work.
August 1, 2008 at 2:17 pm
ari
Fixed. Thanks, andrew.
August 1, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Stephen
I’m actually the third Stephen to write for Cogitamus; the original crew tried to unionize and the jobs were shipped off first to Mexico City, then Mumbai, and now back to the US.
August 1, 2008 at 3:59 pm
davenoon
You know, we recently bought some Stephen for our daughter, but she got sick after eating some of the paint that flecked off it while she was playing.
August 1, 2008 at 4:11 pm
neocynic
I’m actually the third Stephen to write for Cogitamus
Is “Cogitamus” the Latin word for “Bewitched?”
August 1, 2008 at 7:40 pm
grackle
Just who is this “mus” that you think cogits?
August 1, 2008 at 11:46 pm
Brad
Cogitamus ergo sum-thing from Walmart?
August 2, 2008 at 6:25 am
Stephen
You know, we recently bought some Stephen for our daughter, but she got sick after eating some of the paint that flecked off it while she was playing.
All of us at Stephen, Inc. take your concerns very seriously, and are working hard at correcting this problem.
August 2, 2008 at 1:09 pm
grackle
Because Walmart is America
It used to be that General Motors was America, i.e. what’s good for General Motors is good for the country. Al Capp, back before he got old and embarrassed himself very publicly with strange rants of bigotry, had a character called General Bullmoose whose motto was ‘Don’t do anything crooked unless its legal.’
August 3, 2008 at 6:07 am
Sir Charles
We’ve promised Ari profit sharing for his continued links.
And “Stephen” is of course “Esteban.” He is kept chained in a basement with a computer except for those rare moments when we allow him outside to pick Arugula for the Cogblog salads.
This same article prompted me to pen an angry drunken screed (my specialty) last night when I got home. I yield to no man in the field of alcohol-fueled vitriol against the satanic forces of Wal-Mart.