Monday Stuff

As I watched this, I wondered if junior and high school kids in other countries are going to study (if they're not already), in their social studies textbooks, the importance of, say, prevailing wage law and strong private-sector unions as a means to achieve genuine income equality and a just standard of living, as opposed to those poor saps in the United States who kissed it all away by electing primarily Republicans (and I don’t totally absolve myself on that either – it took me awhile to figure out how rigged the game truly is)…

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…and let’s not forget how big a role this plays too…not sure if this is as pathetic as the Dems caving on FISA in 2008, but if not, it’s pretty darned close…



Update 3/12/13: And by the way, in a related story as they say, I meant to link to this earlier.

…and I don’t know who these guys are, but I thought this was a fairly cogent commentary on the whole North Korea/South Korea thing (here), which I’ll admit is a bit disquieting (and former New York Ranger Derek Boogaard, he of the untimely death, once beat the hell out of former Flyer Todd Fedoruk in a hockey fight – just sayin’)…



…and now that I think of it, maybe I should have used this for International Women’s Day instead.