"America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can ( Read more... )

In the ongoing process of trying to clean the Augean stables apartment (and NOT really grateful to whichever cat it was solved the problem of what to do with the box full of all the really awful drek books that I felt guilty about even giving away--!) I came across one of the ones I bought because Big Name Author and cheap but haven't been able to ( Read more... )

The London Riot Re-enactment Society

I wish I still had that book that had a news photo from the Thirties of a double-decker bus flipped sideways to block the rail lines during a workers' strike...

and a year after the Battle of Yorktown--

Looking for a reference for something else, I dowsed this up recently, and post it without comment other than to point out that her immediate older brother Frank Austen (to whom her writings were often dedicated) would join the Royal Navy in four years at the age of twelve, and immediate younger brother ( Read more... )