…has reached its conclusion. After finally talking to someone in management with basic human decency, I can now say, without qualification, that the situation has been resolved to my great satisfaction. UPDATE: In case you have no idea what I’m writing about.
Month: July 2013
Awesome Creative Person: So, listen, guys–I’ve got this great idea for a new SyFy original movie. This is gonna be bigger than “Sharknado.” Maybe even “Mega Python vs. Ga
This week marked the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Michigan copper strike of 1913-14, made famous by the Calumet Massacre, where a company thug’s call of “Fire!” during a
An excellent Mark Bittman op-ed about the true cost of food upon those who produce it. Bittman talks about the fast-food strikes of the last few weeks and how only 1 worker has lost their job, which is interesting. Next week there are going to be more strikes. Listen to Bittman here: Six elements are […]
I was a union organizer for awhile. Most of this was volunteer work, but I was pretty good at it and there were professionals who encouraged me to go into it full time. I was committed to going on to
North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory is quite an intelligent man and a principled politician: In a lengthy and, at times, awkward and disjointed press conference, Gov. Pat McCrory said today that he wo
Here’s a Stereogum list of the 10 best Townes Van Zandt songs. I’ll offer my own 10 best, which look pretty different. Between about 1997 and 2002 or so I was in a huge Van Zandt stage, which soon morphed into following Guy Clark, Joe Ely, Steve Earle, and so many others of that generation […]
In my last entry, when I asked for your funny or familiar stories from the wingnutosphere, what I had in mind was old chestnuts like the time a bunch of Mexicans stole Victor Davis Hanson’s anti
This is from a couple of weeks ago and some of you might have seen it already, but this is an excellent roundup of the wages of global capitalism on the people and ecosystems of Indonesia. Apparel and
Weigel is right about the silliness of the attempt of Republicans arguing that Weiner and Filner represent the real “war on women.” The obvious point: Democrats, unsurprisingly, think this is hilarious. “No one has gotten questions and everyone is perfectly fine throwing all the d* bags under the bus,” says Matt Canter, the DSCC’s spokesman. […]
The Yankees’ acquisition of Alfonso Soriano is another sign that the team’s ownership really has had trouble adjusting to the new reality that you have to develop from within in order to c
Mick Jagger is 70 years old today. The only Rolling Stones show I ever went to was at the old Silverdome outside Detroit in 1981. He was 38 then, which at the time seemed way too old for his on-stage