In A Wal-Mart Kind Of Hell

SF Chronicle ^ | Wednesday, June 18, 2003 | Mark Morford, confused liberal

[presidio9]

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

[presidio9]

While not technically a "writer," I find that Michale Savage has a pretty high bullsh*t threshold. What a coincidence, they're both from SF.

[Quilla]

My daughter had dropped some film off at Walmart's one hour photo. We were passing by and she asked that I pull in while she retrieved it. I was parked outside for about 10 minutes people watching and discovered that some statistics are correct. About 90% of the population is overweight.

[OpusatFR]

Liberals can't figure out what they stand for at this juncture. Is he insulting the lower tiers because they shop at Walmart? Is he be condescending to the less educated who spend their pennies carefully? Is his disdain directed at the mothers who would prefer their nine year old daughters not demand explanations for oral sex after looking at the blurbs on Cosmo? I don't really know where he is heading with this article other than appear to be some intelligentsia or classic bourgeouise from Czarist Russia. Oh, how clever you are, Mark. Bet you stop at 7-11's every day and just put the coffee in an old Starbucks container.

I pretty much think the prices on T-paper are great.

[TheBigB]

It's a...store. You go in. You buy stuff you want or need. You walk out. I have yet to notice any soul-sucking.

Somebody help me out here...I've been in Wal-Mart numerous times. I buy lots of stuff there because I can the SAME things you'd see in other stores for less cost. I get the feeling that an American flag would have the same effect on Morford as a cross to a vampire.

And fergoshsakes..."dystopian mega-ethos"? "asexual pseudo-ethical"? "A karmic shower and soul de-lousing"? "Cultural myopia"? Are people in San Francisco really stupid enough to be impressed by a bunch of hyphenated words that really don't mean anything?

Do you understand? Do you see the danger? Really, no. I don't.

[zx2dragon]

I worked for Wally world and called them the evil empire when I did. :) However, any store has the right to carry whatever products they wish. You can buy Maxim at almost any magazine store or bookstore.

[Gone_Postal]

This is so funny
the confused liberal is not confused but just liberal.
This boy needs to go to Canada and get married.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The Super Wal Mart in Osage Beach, Missouri, has to be the filthiest store I've ever visited. I do not shop there.

[AngryJawa]

"This guy is on some dangerously bad crack."

Well, being that he's a flaming queen from SF...yup, I'd agree that he's had some really, really bad crack. :0)

[babyface00]

Strange.

I bet the author would have no issues with a Gay Sex Toys retailer in SF deciding not to sell the "Christian Science Monitor".

[presidio9]

and isn't it just wickedly telling that the state with the largest number of Wal-Marts in the entire country is, by a wide, wide margin, Texas? Pretty much says it all, really.

I was thinking that y'all might have taken a bigger offense to this glib arrogance. No?

[spodefly]

Maybe Morford would feel better about it if Wal Mart would start selling dildos and eze-glide lube.

Morford hates everything that isn't a buns-up, sex-obsessed, alternative-lifestyle, psuedo-utopian circle-jerk.

[Gone_Postal]

Here is the danger in the authors eyes.

but also the very multibillion-dollar pseudo-Christian kingdom that censors their offerings and refuses to sell certain music CDs and bans "risqué" beer-'n'-babes mags like Maxim and FHM and Stuff,

you see walmart seems to want to apeal to Christians and liberals can't have that no way no how.

[chimera]

Shows what kind of useless rag the SFC has become, to waste space on this kind of rant. So Morford doesn't like what Walmart sells, how they do (or don't) display it, the environment of the store. So, big deal, don't go there. Oh, but that's not good enough, because Walmart "shapes ideas". Well, only for mindless liberals who can't think for themselves. Shapes culture? Hell, I'm a lot more concerned about rap music that glorifies violences, or sodomites and pedophiles who prey on defenseless children and then seek to have society as a whole validate their perverted choices. I'd say Walmart is the least of our worries on that score. I mean, here'a a guy who complains about Walmart not displaying porn magazines to kids, and then would have no problem going out tonight to a bathhouse and having homosexual intercourse with a dozen or so partners, AIDS, VD, and whatever other filthy illness that might come of it be damned. I'll tell you, its a world gone mad...

[hang 'em]

Morford is apparently a victim of AIDS dementia.

[End Times Sentinel]

we shall concentrate on the censorship issue.

Yet again, another liberal confusing private industry with the government.  The line blurs for them since they believe that the means to production should belong to the state.  However, Wal-Mart is free to sell anything not prohibited by law and it is also free to not sell whatever it wants to.  This is not even close to being an example of censorship.  Speech codes, criminal prosecution of "hate" speech, stealing and destroying campus newspapers with unpopular or non-P.C. articles, and disrupting university sanctioned speeches by conservatives, that's all censorship.  And it's right in your own back yard, Mark.

But a couple of other suggestions for you, Mark, since you seem to need them so badly.  It just so happens that I really dislike Wal-Mart too (at least the one in my neighborhood), so you know what I do?  Nope, I don't write poorly reasoned screeds in the S.F. Comical, I shop somewhere else.  Problem solved.

And as for your whining that you can't see the covers of your favorite magazines, Elle, Cosmo, and Mademoiselle, well, Wal-Mart isn't a library.  Either buy them or go read them at your taxpayer funded local library and quit your whining.

Owl_Eagle

”Guns Before Butter.”

[nyconse]

Both my husband and I are college educated (maybe over-educated). We don't have pennies to waste as we are raising 3 children (the fourth is out of the house, a college grad and a conservative Republican-sorry can't help but brag-proud Mom alert). The stores hear in Atlanta are nice:clean and well stocked. I appreciate the quality and the low prices. I redecorated my daughter's room in flower-power using Walmart products and saved a bunch of money. The room is too cute (lime green walls etc).

[nyconse]

Both my husband and I are college educated (maybe over-educated). We don't have pennies to waste as we are raising 3 children (the fourth is out of the house, a college grad and a conservative Republican-sorry can't help but brag-proud Mom alert). The stores here in Atlanta are nice:clean and well stocked. I appreciate the quality and the low prices. I redecorated my daughter's room in flower-power using Walmart products and saved a bunch of money. The room is too cute (lime green walls etc).

[strela]

Wal-Mart shapes ideas. They affect mind-sets. They influence cultural perspectives. This is frightening and wrong.

Dear Ms. Morford,

Get a life. Soon.

Sincerely Yours,

strela

[nyconse]

Sorry, I made corrected a typo and somehow double posted!

[Tacis]

This guy's REAL interest is in advancing fagitude. Any person/organization that acts to maintain some moral certainty will oppose the perversion and deviance of fairidom. Most outfits have folded, all the churches, many governments, and ALL left-wing newspapers.

But, the end objective is not universal perversion, "every male a tinkerbell," the objective is the destruction of capitalism and the destruction of America. As all these rules are broken down, what is left will be anarchy. The US stands almost alone. The fairies, the UN, the left-wing socialists, the educators, the old timee media and the no borders folks want the fabric of the country to be destroyed. Don't know who is doing it and, maybe, it isn't a conspiracy. But, every attack serves the same end.

Once this guy gets the these magazines in front of the public, the Penthouses will follow and then the faggot pubs and then the faggot pubs will demand to replace all others.