Gas prices have stopped climbing - for now

I witnessed something amazing today. The gas station near the radio station dropped their price from 3.99 to 3.95 overnight! While that alone is dumbfounding, get this... when I left work the price dropped to 3.83! Prices are still stupidly high, but in some places they are dropping or leveling off. This really got me thinking, how bad is everything? We have been talking about the economy for awhile now, but just a few months ago it was all talk about a pending recession that never came. The gas prices were back burner stuff and it was all about the doom and gloom of the housing market, lack of consumer confidence, businesses closing etc..then as quickly as it came the bad economy was replaced by the rising fuel prices and that's where we are today. Now I am not going to act like the prices for gas haven't had their effect, but need I mention that we all got a few hundred dollars from Mr Bush that more than offset those prices? All of this is simply to highlight once again that sometimes, a lot of the time and yes most of the time - perception is everything.

When Wal-Mart Moves In, Neighborhood Businesses Suffer. Right?

This one goes out to all those Wal-Mart haters out there. I like Wal-Mart, I have always shopped at Wal-Mart (and no, I don't own stock in Wal-Mart). Nobody put a gun to my head and forced me to shop at Wal-Mart. The harsh truth is that I also feel little sympathy for the little guy who says Wal-Mart put them out of business. Ok that is not entirely true, I would feel bad, but I would never blame Wal-Mart. As this story goes to show, you can still be a success as long as you do it better than the other guy. Wal-Mart was once a small company that did do it better than the other guy and now is doing better than almost anyone.

5 feet, few clues make 1 big B.C. mystery

What I dig about this story is that it is actually a true mystery. It's not like the infamous Michelle Obama "Whitey" video that may or may not exist. It's not like the Denver Alien video that is more than likely fake despite the fact that we all know it's perfectly normal for aliens to peep through windows. This story has the evidence and no explanation. How do you end up with feet missing and no body walking around with a limp going "Hey I have been looking for those". Some of the reasons seem plausible but it still seems pretty bizarre. If there were no shoes attached to the feet then at the very least we could point to those random shoes you always see all over town in the gutter or strung over power lines. That's a fun mystery in and of itself. Seriously, how does someone just lose a shoe?

Andrew's random video for Wednesday: In honor of Neal Boortz visiting Tucson this week, I thought I'd look for a video about him or his show.  I found this... it's just an excerpt from his show set to pictures, but it's worth a listen.  I remember this call when it happened - and it's no less moving now than it was last year about this time.   It's long, but worth it.