Today has been a hard day. As you may have noticed, we took the bandages off of our new face this morning and, it would seem, we horrified some of you with the results.

Today we looked at Wal-Mart's continuing march toward New York. Many commenters were up in arms, talking about socioeconomics and environmental blah blah and all that other NPR stupid stuff. But one of you saw the true good of Wal-Mart.