A Surprising Salve to Domestic Woes: Wal-Mart

They keep on doing decently good things, and it kind of confuses me, because I am supposed to hate them. After decades of destroying the American economy, Wal-Mart has now started sorta saving the environment and- more recently- helping to fix one of the nation's most dire domestic issues: health insurance.

That's right: in-store clinics are popping up more and more, partially as a response to critics pointing out that (true) that their workers' health-care plans are cruddy.

Weird.

Wal Mart Clinics. For some reason this suprises me.

Like a big evil town-eating giant is starting to pretend to or actually feel empathy and begins to crush the buildings more gently, and tries to rebuild a couple of downed water towers and rethread some power lines it snagged while shuffling through them.

Now all we need is Wal-Mart Apartments, to combat the housing crises. Wal-Mart Defense Contractors, to help out our thinning troops in the Mid-East. Wal-Mart Schools to actually teach more kids how to do things like read and think.

*Shudder*