Tag Archives: National Guard

The assault against collective bargaining

By Mark | February 13, 2011

Metafilter has a good thread this evening on the current assault against collective bargaining in America, which is being led by state governments beset by debt. Here’s the post that kicked off the conversation. I’d encourage you, though, to check out the original, posted by a fellow calling himself Saul Goodman, which is chock full […]

Posted in Other, Politics | Also tagged Ann Coulter, Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand, collective bargaining, deregulation, deregulation porn, John Galt, journalism, labor history, labor negotiations, MetaFilter, open for business, public employee unions, regulation, Saul Goodman, Scott Walker, state employees, stealing content from Metafilter, Steev Taylor, tea party, threats to journalists, union busting, unions, Wisconsin, Wisconsin is open for business | 17 Comments

The moral of the story: stay away from Detroit gas stations

By Mark | February 22, 2010

I was just perusing Reddit, and happened across an interesting conversation about Detroit. The original post, which was entitled, “Just drove through Detroit and mistakenly got off the highway to get gas. How does a city like this exist in the western world?,” wasn’t terribly insightful, but I’m enjoying the bizarre comments that the subject […]

Posted in Detroit | Also tagged 8 Mile, AWOL, Bikkstah, Detroit, Detroit gas stations, Detroit tourism, men in uniform, mugged, Reddit, who to blame for the situation in Detroit, zombie apocalypse | 52 Comments

Happy Labor Day… you Socialist sons of bitches

By Mark | September 7, 2009

As some of you probably know, Labor Day was first celebrated here in the United States in 1882. It wasn’t, however, made a national holiday until 1894, in the wake of a bloody strike by employees of the Pullman Palace Car Company, an Illinois-based manufacturer of luxury rail cars. It all began when the company, […]