Archive for November, 2008
Monday, November 17th, 2008
Bailing out the bigs
I had a thought today about the proposed bailout of the US auto makers. Now, I’ve got a position which I won’t get to in this space. But this right-wing meme about how it’s the unions that are responsible for this problem? It reminds me a lot of hearing during the strike about how the [...]
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Wednesday, November 5th, 2008
Brief turn to politics…
I used to run a fairly successful political blog, which no longer exists. When out of work, I have several hobbies, the biggest of which is politics. You have no idea how difficult it has been to avoid the topic here….several of the big lulls were at least partly because all I could think about [...]
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Red-faced and rushing.
There’s a great tradition in the world of the stagehand, where everyone mercilessly mocks the hell out of everyone else in the crew, understanding that it will all come back to them in spades. Sure, there are serious moments. But mostly, we all love to laugh. It’s rarely mean, mostly just affectionate in the vein [...]