Some things never change! My brother used to work as head waiter in a hotel near Druids Glen, and when the Irish Open was there, they always had a lot of the players booked in. And the restaurant was very well reviewed, so they always had a busy time even if the place wasn’t full. Anyway, he was on his break chatting…

That’s the way golf oughta be played.

Still Life With No Pecker

Tear it down and replace it with a Nat Turner and John Brown Museum.

You do know that every State, no matter how racist and small it is gets two Senators that overwhelmingly concentrate Senate power in to Republican racist hands? You do know that racially gerrymandered Congressional districts in the South strangle Progressive input? You do know that Northern states score higher on…

Unions never took a foothold in the Confederate states. Ignorance is just too concentrated there. The anti worker Congresses, that the South has thrust upon the rest of the country since the Civil Rights Act caused them to freak out, have worked tirelessly to pass anti worker and racist legislation. There has been a…

I can relate to the anti-union tactics by companies. I work in a hospital system, and a year or so ago there was a large concern by the “powers that be” that the increased presence of nursing unions in the area would “infiltrate” us.

This might not be ignorance and backward thinking. The reality is that manufacturing jobs are getting automated and outsourced and the only way to keep those jobs is to keep the price of labor deflated. The article itself said it, the only reason that plant is in Canton is because of cheap labor and anti-union…

I guess the surprising thing is how many black people in MS apparently buy this. ??? They do have the right to move somewhere else. The once (and, I think future) Texas where I live was a surprisingly progressive place. The irony is that the rightwing white peoples’ preoccupation with getting rid of Planned…

Nice to know that Jackson is still just as much of a desolate shit hole as it was when I lived there over 20 years ago.

Just imagine any other functional country where the failed leader of an insurrection was memorialized like this.

The fact that labor unions are taking a beating should be no surprise to anyone paying real attention to politics for the last 35 years.

This is what happens to your homegrown racism when you outsource it to non-union labor.

The only reason there are auto plants in Mississippi is because it is a right-to-work state. Over the last two decades, more auto plants have opened in Mississippi that in Michigan.

Five? I’m thinking 7. But a really uncompetitive 7. Where like they lose the first five games of the season, and then scratch out meaningless victories where guys play way over their head and blow the team’s chance at getting any sort of high draft pick, much less the #1 pick required to have a good chance at a…

For which team?

I worked for some time as a banker at a regional bank, and at least in Ohio, we regularly had 75k+ in the safe, and at least another 50k in the ATM. If you could time it up to when Brinks arrived, oh boy, you were in for a load (think like 250k+ all there at the same time, with unlocked safes). So if you could get…

It’s kinda hard to say with any real conviction. I’ve never had to service an automatic transmission, aside from fluid changes.. Some are pretty bulletproof. But, the more modern the unit, the more likely it will have a VERY complex electronic control system. There are 6, 7, 8, and 9 speed automatics out there as…

That is exactly how I like my sandwiches, no cheese, no condiments. I maaaybe can be persuaded to put a slice of tomato or onion on, but would really rather not. Meat, bread, done. I want to taste the meat, not slather it in salad dressing or cover it up with dairy.

We sold our VW with just shy of 200K on the clock and it was still on the original clutch. It dealt with me “re-learning” how to operate a manual, my wife learning, several track days, and southern California freeway stop and go. That clutch wore like iron. Probably helped that it was bolted to one of VW’s most…