Just want to let you all know, it’s official.  My brain has splintred completely off from the consensual reality, and I’m officially crazy as of 12:43 in the afternoon on Thursday, May 12, 2005.

     I’m watching CNN, and the anchor says:

          “One way to check on the financial health of the typical American family, just take

            a look at how Wal-Mart is doing, Sales were up 10% in the latest quarter to 70

            billion dollars and…they cleared 2.5 billion dollars in profits on that 70 billion.”

     When exactly did Wal-Mart’s profitability become an economic indicator?  Didn’t we used to measure the well-being of the average American family by how many of them were building homes to live in, how well their average wage increases stacked up against gains in the cost of living…how much money they were socking away in savings accounts and investments?

     Evidently, we are now measuring their well being by looking at how much poorly-made crap slapped together by sweat-shop slave labor they are purchasing.

     Seems to me, this would be a better indicator of how much space we’re going to need to devote to landfills over the next year.

      “Liberal Media”…my ass.