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Top Comments - A South Carolinian Speaks on DeMint
Ah the best laid plans. Here I had my diary plan all set for the night, a pictorial followup to the diary I would have written Saturday evening, had I had time, on my sister's highly subversive...
View ArticleAre you ready for some bread and circus?
Yes, it's that time of the year again....We can just sit in front of our 50 inch flat screen and temporarily forget about all of our problems and lose ourselves in the corporate orgy known as the Super...
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OR-Sen: Jeff Merkley (D) Leads The Call For Obama To Sign ENDA Executive Order
Greg Sargent pointed out that even with GOP obstruction in the House and Senate, President Obama can still take action on gay rights: http://www.washingtonpost.com/... President Obama has talked a lot...
View ArticleAnimal Encounters In The Life of The Phoneman Part I
As a utility worker I encounter animals, wild and domestic, on a daily basis. Sometimes these encounters are beautiful, more often they're annoying and sometimes they're seriously dangerous. Below is...
View ArticleAnimal Encounters In The Life Of The Phoneman Part 2
A while back I wrote about being attacked by a customer's dog while on the job as a utility worker, and how my company then proceeded to blame me for the whole incident. The following is a story about...
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The Chinese Dilemma
When I think of immigration reform in the US today, I think of people migrating here from across our southern border in search of work, usually for low-skilled and low-paying jobs --- such as farm...
View ArticleCorporate tax loopholes meet their match
Propose a tax increase and you lose -- that's been the axiom of American politics for a decade or more. But as the nation wallows in the economic doldrums, the old idea that all tax increases are bad...
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Corporate America Celebrates Pride
Sometimes it's really important for the LGBT Community (I know, but I needed to make a blanket statement here) to acknowledge, as we often do here at the Great Orange Satan, that we have allies (here,...
View ArticleThe problem with presidents
We tend to think of presidents and presidential candidates as autonomous actors. They are not.We'd like to believe that if we just elect the right person, someone with the right stuff, a reformer, a...
View ArticleTurning Underemployment into Creative Deployment
For those of you who've been getting too little work lately (or none at all), let me offer some words of essential encouragement, because we're not out of this economic rough spot by a long shot.You...
View ArticleAT & T: Insanely off the rails!!
I haven't posted anything here in a while but over the last month or so I've had an experience with AT&T that is so disquieting that it has caused myself and everybody in my household to shake our...
View ArticleLearning To Climb A Utility Pole (Harder Than You Probably Think)
Pole climbing class was the final step in the process of getting hired to be a phoneman and it was clearly designed as a test of one’s willpower, a “weeder” class as we used to say in college. My...
View ArticleTo Everyone Else Who Has To Work Through The Holidays
Maybe you're a cop or a firefighter or, like me, a utility worker. Maybe you're working a cash register at a gas station. Or selling concessions or parking cars at a sporting event. Or driving an...
View ArticleBootstrap, Inc. Shares Surge on Job Cuts, Unemployment Insurance Cutoff
Shares of Bootstrap, Inc. (NASDAQ: BOOT) surged to another all-time high today, as the company announced that it's eliminating all American jobs and shifting production to countries without a minimum...
View ArticleThe NFL has managed to diminish my favorite pastime.
Football has been my favorite sport for many years. Some of my fondest memories are of going with my Dad as an 8 year old to high school football games he officiated on weekends; and for close to a 20...
View ArticleOffensive Cadillac ad
I was astounded by this Cadillac ad http://www.youtube.com/... It shows a fit middle aged man gloating about his pool, mansion and of course his Cadillac. All of which he is entitled to because he...
View ArticleWorst President in Modern Times...Really?
Quinnipiac just released a "survey" that claims to reflect general feelings that the public has about attitudes towards President Obama. Upon closer analysis the green curtain reveals the typical...
View ArticleThe Need To Vote In November
We need to remember that, while 2014 may be a midterm election year, it's just as important that we vote like we did in the 2012 presidential election cycle & like we will do in the 2016 cycle....
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Editorial Cartoon - Gender Pay Gap Empathy
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