Hats off to Radley Balko for this piece.

Yet another example of the market response to the disaster in Louisiana. Please compare it to the utterly incompetent Federal bungling of same catastrophe.

I’ve previously blogged about wal-mart here and here. Usually I take the whole capitalist approach and argue in defense of Wal-Mart. I suppose that this is no different, only the detractors now will point to the motive of Wal-Mart’s beneficience and cry foul, whereas usually they are attacking the ends of Wal-Mart’s actions.