AP is like Blogspot

Some of it's good, and some of it's crap.

Here's one of the good stories, not good news but real journalism that doesn't put truthiness on an equal footing with truth.

It's very interesting to me that huge retailers, as standard practice, evaluate their receipts in terms of paycheck cycles. It makes perfect sense now that I've heard about it for the first time. Where has this kind of report been before?

There are the top-end haves, and in today's economy they're getting, well, everything. The have nots are skipping meals, according to statistics from the well-known ultraliberal front group, Wal-Mart.