Today's Worst Person

Matt Yglesias.

Then again, it must be pretty awesome for a guy who could afford to attend Harvard and who apparently makes enough money to purchase a $1.2 million condo in downtown D.C. before his 32nd birthday to spend a few hours slumming with single mothers who will work 40 hours a week and still qualify for food stamps. More to the point, the reason why big cities like mine have resisted Wal-Mart isn't because we don't believe in free-market competition or because our big bad unions are so powerful---we're opposed to Wal-Mart because they are turning the Republic into a nation of paupers, where a single family controls more wealth than 150 million Americans. Yes, I know, only an unvarnished Marxist would claim that these big-box mega-marts extract profits from forced impoverishment and the spreading of human misery, but the fact is, they do, and there's nothing cool about it.

---Baron V