Working Life

It is always a curious phenomena to watch people pretend as if facts don’t matter. Ideology trumps reality. The debt crisis is a great example.

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False equivalency rages through the political rhetoric, fanned by the transcribers of press releases (formerly known as “journalists”). No one seems able to call bullshit on what is transparently nonsense. To wit.

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I wanted to write something thought provoking about some other topic but I can only think of one thing right now: Wayne LaPierre, the N.R.A. vice president, is the lowest form of human excrement there is, the bottom of the pond. That is all.

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The attack against Michigan unions – by right-wing political and business forces, resulting in the rollback of significant labor rights – was swift and vicious. But, consider this: in the hand-wringing over the defeat, there are long-term, silver lined lessons for unions globally.

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It’s a tad better but still I remain unimpressed by the UBS felony conviction. Because the big fish are still not in jail.

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I wish this phony debate about the debt and deficit “crisis” would be over because, truthfully, I’m running out of clever new ways to call this bi-partisan exercise the stupidity it truly is. So, sigh, here we go again — but I can leave it to others to call it by its true name.

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Look, Wal-Mart has always been a scar on humanity. The list of the company’s immorality is extensive and well-documented. Now, we even have the traditional press giving the Beast of Bentonville a new moniker: “aggressive and creative corrupter”

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To make the point again, this is a very, very simple equation: eliminate the scourge of the NRA, drain the swamp of its blood money and you stop the murder of children. Period. And so the question that must be asked of at least the Democratic Party: what is the party going to do to destroy the NRA’s ability to keep advancing an agenda that promotes gun mayhem in the streets and the murder of children and other innocent people?

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Mass murder by gun gets obscured by all sorts of fuzzy talk about “national character” and “culture”. But, really, the bottom line is this: it’s the end result of the blood money handed out by the National Rifle Association. Until that stream of blood money stops, either by party decision or public outcry, the river of blood will flow through schools, malls, streets and homes all across the nation. The NRA. That is the source of this scourge.

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Yesterday, I had a little bit about the thieves of the Fix The Debt gang. Oh, boy, is there more, or what? Yes. A lot more.

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