Big Box - My liberal

Big Box - My liberal friends all bought "Nickeled and Dimed - on Not Getting By in America", by the generally-incoherent Barbara Ehrenreich, and acted like they'd caught all of us conservatives pilfing from the fridge at night. The book, of course, was a trite look at life in minimum-wage America - an upper-middle-class dilettante taking a year to try to live in the lower wage brackets, while exercising all of the lower-income survival and budgeting skills one might expect of...well, an upper-middle-class dilettante.

Now, Virginia Postrel has written an excellent article on how Wal-Mart has helped raise the American standard of living. That'd include everyone, mind you, not just Sam Walton.