Liberal Talk Radio

America Coming Together: Wal-Mart courts upscale shoppers (”In its boldest effort yet to target upscale shoppers, the nation’s largest retailer is opening a new store this week with an expanded selection of high-end electronics, more fine jewelry, hundreds of types of wine ranging up to $500 a bottle, and even a sushi bar.”) while Zabar-born and Dean & Deluca-bred Manhattanites discover Trader Joe’s (”[with] press coverage more suitable to the opening of a hip new museum than a seller of mayonnaise and tortilla chips . . . my friends in New York, normally hard-bitten sophisticates, have suddenly gone giddy for the newest resident of Union Square”).

The first opportunistic mofo to figure out what philosophy-ideology populates this portion of the Venn diagram will take over the country . . . just watch.