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I blame james_nicoll
Since I couldn't sup with parkingprincess(who is off doing fiber-agitprop with Char in Iowa), I betook my lonely self to a place where I devoured my first dish of poutine. It was, as they say, yum. -
Minimum wage: my take
An excellent science fiction writer asked me offline, "...what's the counter-argument for the conservative/libertarian position of 'Look, if you raise the minimum wage, the employer will raise their prices to compensate, this will ripple down the chain of goods and services, and pretty soon Mr. Minimum Wage is right back where he started.' I reply ( Read more... ) -
Oh, Canada... I'm so disappointed
I got a call today from the bank that issued one of my credit cards. It turns out that last Wednesday, I am reported to have bought C$210 or so worth of stuff at a Target Canada store in Brampton, Ontario.
Brampton? Seriously: Brampton?I can assure you, not only was I not in Brampton then, I've never been any closer to Brampton than Toronto ( Read more... ) -
We got one of the bastards, anyway... kinda
Forty years ago today, that embarrassment to all Quakers and Irishmen alike, Richard Milhous "Actually, I AM A Crook, But You Can't Prove It! Nyahh!" Nixon, resigned as President.
His hand-picked successor, Warren Commission veteran Gerald Ford, immediately pardoned him. We'll never know what all he did.
Tricky Dicky -
Re: reality-challenged management and their cat herding concepts
A quote from my memo to a fellow office worker and union steward (who is in a different office than my own), about a particularly silly management idea:
"this sounds like a delusional attempt at herding cats by creating a spreadsheet and Powerpoint of where the cats are supposed to be for the next ten years." -
AFSCME and the UNCF
I've spent the past week as a delegate (unreimbursed) from my local to the 41st International Convention of AFSCME (the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees), of whose Local 91 I am president, and to which parkingprincess also belongs. (The only reason I've been able to afford to be here was that trinker has been letting me crash on her couch ( Read more... ) -
No LiveJournal party at WisCon this year
I believe this is the first WisCon in well over a decade where there has not been a LiveJournal party. -
So sue me, you sexist creep!
delkytlar seems to have trouble with uppity women he can't control. He has now threatened to sue The Daily Dot for paraphrasing his hateful rantings in a way he doesn't care for, and to sue anybody who links to the article which has put his knickers in a twist. He never seems to have heard of the Streisand effect.
Go ahead, Sean Fodera, sue me: make my rep ( Read more... ) -
Trope: small-time guy from the sticks makes good, becomes great leader
This came to me while attending a panel here at ICON with Glen Cook ( Read more... ) -
Paid my dues, done my part
I've just been re-elected without opposition to another two-year term as President of Local 91, Wis. State Employees Union, AFSCME.