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In A Wal-Mart Kind Of Hell
SF Chronicle ^
| Wednesday, June 18, 2003
| Mark Morford, confused liberal
Posted on 06/18/2003 7:29:28 AM PDT by presidio9
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:47 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Stop. You've found it. This is the place. Americana HQ. Patriotism in a giant tin bucket. This is where souls recoil, children wail, dreams die.
This is Wal-Mart. The glorious consumer mecca, the epic wonderland/wasteland of prefab landfill merch, not only the world's largest and most powerful retailer and the most aggressive snarling frightening happy-place marketer and quite possibly the most hideously overlit soul-draining monster empire you will ever know in your entire lifetime, but also the very multibillion-dollar pseudo-Christian kingdom that censors their offerings and refuses to sell certain music CDs and bans "risqu
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Comment #161 Removed by Moderator
To: Hobsonphile
Sweet flame!
Have you seen
this one yet? It's great source material.
162
posted on
06/18/2003 11:48:29 AM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: rattrap
All right, i see someone got here and managed to stick the powerfully witty "Idiotarian" in the key words... 'Twas I. I was referring to Morford, not to WalMart or the Libertarians.
163
posted on
06/18/2003 11:58:10 AM PDT
by
MikalM
To: Hobsonphile
Awesome reply! Wish I could rant as articulately as this...
164
posted on
06/18/2003 12:00:39 PM PDT
by
MikalM
To: Xenalyte
Some of the WAL-MART's here are dirty but I have to agree they are all zoo-like...However WAL-MART does not allow feeding at anytime....
165
posted on
06/18/2003 12:14:16 PM PDT
by
.45MAN
(If you don't like it here try and find a better country, Please!!)
To: presidio9
"But here, have a nice Remington .22. Now scamper off and go kill something, sweetie."I think the author of this article needs help.
166
posted on
06/18/2003 12:15:46 PM PDT
by
two23
To: presidio9; hellinahandcart; KLT; countrydummy
"It might seem innocuous, this magazine cover-up, this prosaic Bible-lickin' censorship, merely representing Wal-Mart's ostensible pro-family nightmarish dystopian mega-ethos of perky corporate sweatshop happiness and their infamous claim that they are merely responding to their customers' wishes when they remove products, block out words, cover up those horrible boobies." I wondered at the incongruity of this with the fact that Her Heinous was at a local Wal-Mart selling her "non-fiction" life story....
And, BTW, isn't Morford gay?
167
posted on
06/18/2003 12:17:12 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Watch out for low flying brooms! The Witch has left the Wal-Mart)
To: sauropod
And, BTW, isn't Morford gay? In the words of comedian Jay Mohr: 'He's as gay as a leather pinata."
168
posted on
06/18/2003 12:19:29 PM PDT
by
presidio9
(Run Al, Run!!!)
To: axel f
Are there any writers on the right who write columns
this bizarre or have mental problems to this degree?
Uhm, that would be Ann Coulter defending the WoD.
169
posted on
06/18/2003 12:22:19 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: presidio9
Then for 100 million benumbed Wal-Mart regulars, Marilyn and Maxim might as well not even exist. Wal-mart is trying to make me think meatballs don't exist because they don't carry Weight Watcher's Meatball Pockets. What? You mean, I can buy them at Albertson's? And Wal-Mart won't ban me for life? C'mon....
To: TontoKowalski
Where do I sign up!?!
I'll sign you up with TVC if
you really want unending spam
that you can't turn off. Let
me know.
171
posted on
06/18/2003 12:23:57 PM PDT
by
gcruse
To: presidio9
? Then for 100 million benumbed Wal-Mart regulars, Marilyn and Maxim might as well not even exist.Who or what are marilyn and maxim?
172
posted on
06/18/2003 12:24:50 PM PDT
by
js1138
To: nyconse
I prefer the Diners we have here in New York to any Waffle House/Cracker Barrel (the latter of which I REALLY can't stand, although Waffle House is pretty good) ANY day of the week. I remember that when I lived in Florida, the closest we had to diners was Denny's which is FILTHY and has lousy service to boot.
173
posted on
06/18/2003 12:26:55 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: mountainfolk
Get Home Depot to carry all the magazines and other consumer items the third sex enjoys. When I lived in South Florida, the Home Depot bathrooms were notorious for being Gay cruising zones. There were always guys getting busted for playing "Bob and Neil."
174
posted on
06/18/2003 12:30:03 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
To: N3WBI3
Now does this goon shop in department stores without Cheri and Oui and Hustler out on the racks? Somehow I don't doubt it---yet how can he tolerate that kind of censorship???
To: js1138
Maxim is a male version of Cosmo. I have a couple issues featuring Lucy Lawless.
176
posted on
06/18/2003 12:31:23 PM PDT
by
Xenalyte
(I may not agree with your bumper sticker, but I'll defend to the death your right to stick it)
To: presidio9
Cynical Elitism is never pretty....
To: js1138
Well, at least not Hillary! She just had her latest book-signing at Wal-Mart. While you're all trying to decide if WM is too cluttered or not, do any of you remember its Clinton-associated roots in Arkansas? Hillary Clinton used to be on the WM Board of Directors.
Also, back when Clinton was king in AK, he helped Tyson and Sam Walton get a commercial-sized airport built WITH TAXPAYER'S MONEY. For WM this was so they could import goods directly from China. An expose was done on the scandal of the airport many years ago, and then no one was prosecuted for the crimes. Sound familiar for the Clinton-era? WM, like Tyson, is not really just a corporation - it is an extension of the government by favor and by money. Capitalism does not apply to their success, only greed and corruption.
Please, someone come back w/a comment that doesn't contain the word "cheese-doodles" or "Brittany Spears".
178
posted on
06/18/2003 12:33:46 PM PDT
by
bets
To: bets
i don't like all this cheese-dooling about britney spears.
this is series, i'm get a moderator.
:-/
179
posted on
06/18/2003 12:41:14 PM PDT
by
rattrap
To: bets
So where do you shop. Target?
(Target was, I believe, founded by the Ultra-Liberal Dayton family, who produced MN Senator Mark Dayton)
180
posted on
06/18/2003 12:42:28 PM PDT
by
Clemenza
(East side, West side, all around the town. Tripping the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York)
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