THC

I love seeing hypocrisy avenged, and I got a chance to late last week. The court had a decision in the case of the controversial Wal-Mart: the hypocrites lost. They’re the ones that won’t admit that their only problem is the retailer in question.

No one has yet raised a question about the Office Depot (another big box store) that’s going in across the street. And the incredibly enormous Lowe’s (a far bigger box) a few blocks away hasn’t raised an eyebrow that I can find or triggered any lawsuit on record.

You either oppose big box stores in commercial areas that border neighborhoods, or you don’t. Or at least you’re honest about why you don’t like a particular one.

I’m reminded over and over of Big Daddy’s speech in “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof”, the mendacity one. He knew people were prevaricating, dodging honesty as fast as it came. Evading honesty.

He could smell it, and I can, too. He didn’t like it, and neither do I.

Me and Big Daddy’ll stick together on this one: mean what you say, but for the love of God, just be honest.

The litmus test on this one is fairly simple: would you support a Whole Foods at the same location that was developed with similar or identical standards? If you can’t honestly answer “no” to that one, then you have no business raising a ruckus. Your motivations are insincere and your message is corrupt.

It is but a clanging gong or clattering cymbal, shrill, hollow and without meaning.

Put that in your pipe and smoke it. (No THC, so you’ll pass your next drug test. Well, not at least if THC doesn’t stand for The Hypocrite Coalition.)