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Matt Yglesias is a piece of shit.
Well, actually, uh, Mobutu Sese Seko puts it better than I do:Matthew Yglesias-a Norelco marketing experiment to see if a hand-drawn Sharpie beard on a peeled potato could sell men's earrings-wrote a morally and intellectually odious article at his second job yesterday. His Slate column, "Different Places Have Different Safety Rules and That's OK ( Read more... ) -
If you're still blaming unions for the Hostess collapse,
you're either fucking stupid or you're a liar.
John Nichols lays out the facts. And Travis Waldron notes that Hostess asked a bankrupcy judge yesterday to approve a plan that would "pay $1.75 million in bonuses to 19 of its executives" - even as it demonized its unions as the cause of its destruction.
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Their cities, counties, states, and country have failed them.
From a gallery of photos taken in Long Beach, New York, titled "My Street 18 Days After Hurricane Sandy":
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The nadir of the phrase "political correctness"
WASHINGTON (AP) - A friend says a Maryland man accused of threatening to shoot up his workplace is a "gentle giant" who collected weapons and had expressed concerns about break-ins near his apartment complex ( Read more... ) -
This makes Office Space look utterly functional
From last fall, and bold is my emphasis:BETTENDORF, Iowa - William Ernst, the owner of the QC Mart chain of convenience stores in the Bettendorf, Iowa, area, recently offered prizes to employees who could predict which of them would be fired next, said the Des Moines Register.
Via Mano Singham. Unlocked.
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Back to the future... the Gilded Age
Ophelia Benson posts about a group of long-term unemployed UK job-seekers who were bused into London to do unpaid riverside menial work during the queen's diamond jubilee celebrations. They were not simply unpaid, but they were told to sleep under London Bridge the night before, in a cold rain.Up to 30 jobseekers and another 50 people on apprentice ( Read more... ) -
Limbaugh Untergang (we can hope)
A total of 36 advertisers have pulled out of Lush Rimjob's show. Thousands of people have signed this petition to get him yanked off Armed Forces Radio Network (which, unfortunately, doesn't look likely to happen).
Also, I am shocked and gratified to see, in the neoconservative Washington Post no less, this blast by Gene Weingarten:I was surprised ( Read more... )
