Lucky you! Next week’s Inspection arrives early with a truly frightening big Halloween boo!

 While ghouls, goblins and kids in Ebola costumes gather their riches, could gas companies, politicians and religious fanatics be plotting to gather even bigger “heavenly” rewards?
 Maybe, but hey! Joy of all joys! Gas prices have plummeted! Yet shouldn’t this raise as many questions as the higher prices?
 Look, I get enjoying lower gas prices. As the Bush II era progressed my business started to enter the danger zone due to rising gas prices. Luckily it survived due to a local contract, but I know all too well how high priced gas can devastate small business. I’ve heard, and never really believed, all the lame excuses, the most current and frequent being “speculators.”
 OK, if so, and I have my doubts, wouldn’t out of control speculators make a damn good case for regulations and enforcement? Want to bet if pols actually pushed that (fat chance) prices would drop? Read more

Instead of enhancing Sears’ bottom line, the heads of various divisions began to undermine each other and fight tooth and claw for the profits of their individual fiefdoms at the expense of the overall brand. By this time Crazy Eddie was completely in thrall to his own bloated ego, and fancied he could bend underlings to his will by putting them through humiliating rituals, like annual conference calls in which unit managers were forced to bow and scrape for money and resources. But the chaos only grew.

Lampert took to hiding behind a pen name and spying on and goading employees through an internal social network. He became obsessed with technology, wasting resources on developing apps as Sears’ physical stores became dilapidated and filthy. Instead of investing in workers and developing useful products, he sold off valuable real estate, shuttered stores, and engineered stock buybacks in order to manipulate stock prices and line his own pockets.

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Military officials this week removed a jarring display portraying the lynching of an African-American family on the lawn of an on-base home at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

The display, apparently part of the home’s Halloween decorations, depicts two adults and one child hanging from a tree. A photo provided by ClarksvilleNow shows that one adult bore an illegible sign, while the child had a knife in its back. Another child appeared to try to help one of the adults.

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A new awful, racist person has carved out a small niche of Internet fame. Hooray! Cynthia Ramsey, a math teacher (and head of the math department) at Camden County High School in North Carolina, was recently discussing items on her bucket list with a student, when she revealed her rotten inner core.

The student’s mother, Kimberly Ashcraft, said on local television, “She conveyed to me that Mrs. Ramsey had indicated that if she only had 10 days to live that she would kill all black people.”

“I was completely shocked,” Ashcraft continued. “I asked her again, ‘Are you sure that was what you heard?’ I could not have imagined a teacher saying that.”

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