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The next time you shop Wal-Mart

Via Arts & Letters Daily comes a New York Review of Books article looking at the “Leviathan,” Wal-Mart. It makes for interesting reading.

For example, with 1.4 million employees worldwide, Wal-Mart’s workforce is now than GM, Ford, GE, and IBM combined. And Wal-Mart’s 2003 annual revenues are 2 percent of the country’s gross domestic product […]

Worth the time

Along the lines of my New Year’s post, here’s a column talking about what Bush’s vision of the future means for us. (Via Cursor). Similarly, Elaine Cassell (whose book I received as a Christmas present) mentioned on Christmas Eve several things also behind my New Year’s post. She also chimes in on the lifetime […]