Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Turn Your Brain On When You Read This
This is one of those things where two people can look at exactly the same thing, one with a brain running on all eight cylinders and the other thinking kind of half-assed, and by consuming the same information they’ll come away with one-hundred-eighty-degree opposite interpretations of what it is they just saw.
My favorite part of the story was this gem:
The group has no transportation to go elsewhere�they are dropped off by a union van and picked up later. On weekends, they have to find their own transportation, Greer said.
There are tons and tons of people who are fully capable of reading this story, and come away with the feeling this is nothing more than another chapter of noble, ragtag rebels doing battle with the evil empire. Hypocrisy? What hypocrisy? I didn’t see any. Just good-hearted union people standing out in the unbearable heat to raise the standard of living for poor, victimized Wal-Mart “workers.”
Well read the article again. This is an intelligence test. Who is actually standing out in the unbearable heat?
How much do they make an hour?
How much does the average Wal-Mart associate in Nevada make an hour?
This whole business of striking needs a thorough re-visiting. I’m among the people who believe that you do indeed have a right to strike; you have the right to do it, without being paid for it, and then if you choose to strike your boss has the right to interpret it as absenteeism, fire you for it, hire somebody else, and then give you a crappy reference if contacted by future prospective employers.
If enough people are striking, that boss would be cutting his own throat. Therein lies the legitimacy of striking – it’s like the fish voluntarily jumping into the fisherman’s rowboat, hoping that thousands of other fish will jump in with him and thus sink the boat. Maybe it’ll work, and maybe it won’t. But if this is the moral underpinning of striking, is it legit to outsource the striking to temp workers? Allowing for the extravagant idea that it somehow is, then shouldn’t the union be providing those temp workers with the same working conditions upon which it is insisting from the employer?
How in the world could anyone argue otherwise?
And yet…some people will.
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