Day March 21, 2008

Great moments in labor relations

Union: Workers told to use urine bags Union officials in Colorado say a Qwest supervisor tried to cut down on lengthy bathroom breaks by telling workmen to use disposable urinal bags in the field. “We deal with a lot of…

Clinton aides: She has no chance of winning

One important Clinton adviser estimated to Politico privately that she has no more than a 10 percent chance of winning her race against Barack Obama, an appraisal that was echoed by other operatives.

The Surge ebbs

The Guardian discloses how the thousands of Iraqis hired by the US to hunt al-Qaeda are on the verge of going on strike because they haven’t been paid. The incompetence and venality of the Bush Administration is quite extraordinary, isn’t…

Me neither

But as one who has helped organize a multitude of antiwar protests, some of which drew hundreds of thousands of people, well, if you keep doing what you’re doing, you keep getting what you’re getting. The turnout for the antiwar…

Issues, anyone?

I don’t care about Rev. Wright, or what McCain did or didn’t say, or snooping into Obama’s passport record, or Hillary’s White House schedule when Bill was prez, or any of the other banal trivialities being passed off as news..…