The settlement in which Wal-Mart will still pay thieving former executive Tom Coughlin $6.75 million was unsealed today. Both sides agree not to disparage each other. We still can. He’s a thieving low-life, fattening himself off the crumpled dollars and dimes of millions of hard-working Americans. He ought to be ashamed, but probably isn’t, only sorry that he got caught.

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