And that right there is the problem. It’s not the minimum wage. It’s not offshoring of jobs.

I love that his reasoning is that workers will get replaced by machines if the minimum wage goes up. There were two people working and six automated checkout lines open when I went to the store before work today.

“The heavy hand of the government”? Really, Mr. Bridgegate?

Perhaps this asshole should start worrying a bit more about the heavy hand of the voters.

I love that we’ve become open-minded enough as a society to have a former rent boy, who was so racist that he refused to service customers who were black, pretend to be seeking true love on tv. Progress!

Can’t

CTE is real, folks.

Fuck this asshole. My daughter is autistic. She has been autistic since she was born. I knew there was something different long before she got the MMR vaccine. My daughter being autistic is just who she is. She sees and processed the world differently. That’s okay. I wouldn’t change her even if I could. To me it…

It’s true. When HD 164595 sends its little green people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending little green men that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems to us. They’re bringing alien drugs. They’re bringing alien crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good bug-eyed people.

Time to buy stock in Reynolds wrap...

Some Astronomers think that, although the life is probably prolific in the universe, the chance of two advanced civilizations overlapping each other is infinitesimal. The universe is so vast that whole civilizations like ours could have lived, evolved, and been wiped out before we ever even came around. So even if…

Or they could have existed a billion years ago or a billion years in the future and we’d never exist at the same time.

William Butler Yeats was really into the occult and died 94 years ago. I’m not saying that it’s him but someone should poetically scan the signal and also it’s him.

That’s like saying if people really cared about the environment, they wouldn’t litter. It’s a collective action dilemma. People free ride on unions until the unions die. Then those same people wonder why their wages are stagnating and blame the immigrants.

Apropos of nothing, I heard Hamilton as a guest commentator on Marketplace Weekend the other day. They had asked him what he was reporting on over the long term and he was talking about pinch-ins. I remember thinking to myself, “I’m fairly well informed and I have no idea what the hell a pinch-in is. Maybe, because…

The fundamental difference is that CEOs must, by definition, extract as much from their workers as possible by paying them as little as possible. That’s not a value judgment (necessarily), it’s just how that works. Union execs, in theory, do not adhere to that dynamic at all; they’re incentivized to be as valuable for…

You’re judging the whole concept of unions on the struggle of those that exist now in their near extinction, a shadow and fraction of what existed a generation ago. If you look at other countries who’s union membership never dipped below a critical mass of 30%, those unions function much differently in the economy and…

It’s funny how the ruthless greed of the ownership class is worshiped in the Republican party especially (but also neoliberals) as the main driver of growth, and yet collective bargaining for workers’ self interests is somehow unethical or damaging to the economy? Okay.

Glad to see you here Hamilton!