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K “Labor Day never falls on a Wednesday. The folks who brought you the weekend – unions – allow all of us to celebrate the weekend for one more day.”
J “The epilogue bookend for the summer. Labor or do not labor, but eschew spending.”
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[See the e-commentary at “Labor Day. Oh, and Happy Labor Day! (September 3, 2018)”.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
NEED MORE SUMMER!
Unions – The folks who brought you the weekend
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K “When the day comes that laborers are eliminated, will they still celebrate Labor Day?”
J “They cannot not celebrate it. Without Labor Day, there are no Labor Day Sales to sell stuff to those who labor.”
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[See the e-commentary at “What Use [Are] People? Oh, And Happy Father’s Day! (June 18, 2018)”.]
Bumper sticker of the week:
Unions – The folks who brought you the weekend
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2 “Petit bourgeoisie. That is a more accurate description.”
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1 “My nick name for her is ‘Mary Poppins.’ The cop barked at her to produce her insurance and registration. Shook up, she found both in her glove box and produced them. He screamed at her: ‘This is your registration and insurance. I said I want your insurance and registration.’”
2 “A picture of one of his grand kids stuck to his driver’s license. The cop exploded that he didn’t tell him to give him pictures of his little bastards.”
1 “She said she was relieved to be pulled over. The car behind her had been tailgating and flashing the high beams and speeding up and slowing down as she sped up and slowed down. The cop was hostile and cited her for speeding and reckless driving. She also displayed out-of-state tags. In the South.”
2 “The cop laughed and said to produce a driver’s license and proof of insurance without taking his hands off the steering wheel.”
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1 “All White, all polite, all contrite and all over 48.”
2 “And yet only in the petit bourgeoisie. When a White person who abides the law cannot even abide the law, the system is profoundly broken.”
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1 “One concern with the ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ movement is that the hands must go up when the police make a reasonable request and not later at some rally with all the usual glitterati. The troubling concern with the ‘Pants Up, Don’t Loot’ movement is that the adherents do not like Blacks.”
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1 “More so than at any time in the history of the Republic, might makes right today. For a few moments, cops have absolute might.”
2 “More so than at any time in the history of the Republic, the police are militarized Legionnaires defending Rome in its last days.”
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1 “Have you noticed that some Republican governors who attack unions do not challenge the police unions.”
2 “They know who has the guns.”
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1 “The cops have expanded the enemies list to include more than the usual suspects. Blacks and Browns are not alone. The police now only exempt the very wealthy from their wrath.”
2 “That is a curious notion of equal protection.”
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1 “There will be repercussions.”
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[See the e-commentary at Police Police (November 24, 2014) and at the Category “Police.”]
Bumper sticker of the week:
PIGs: Pride, Integrity, Guts
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1 “They say you need three things to run a college: sex for the students, tenure for the faculty and football for the alumni.”
2 “That’s about it. The sex is self-executing. Tenure for the faculty is now tenuous with the adjuncts impressed to assume the laboring oar. That leaves the futball team – the sine qua non that justifies the existence of a college in America today.”
1 “The young gladiators are relieved of paying some of the lease payments for the classrooms they may not frequent and the coliseums they fill and toil in for the benefit of the ‘lums. Granting tenure might foster academic freedom and independence. Adjuncts can be underpaid and overworked along with the gladiators.”
2 “Today all the money is deployed for administrators who are bureaucrats with shiny pedigrees. Someone needs to develop a percentage formula to limit the amount spent on the administrators who exist to collect big pay checks and approve tuition increases.”
1 “Humans seek to enslave other humans. We need to resist our basic impulses. Unless the athletes organize and unless the adjuncts organize, they will be exploited. And the Sherpas too.”
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1 “Kids who do not understand their own mortality do not understand that their student debt is immortal.”
2 “The solution is simple. After high school, youngsters are still engaged in the emancipation process from their parents or parent. A two-year break allows them to flirt with adulthood rather than go to college and extend their adolescence. A summer with the Civilian Conservation Corps, a stint in the military, a go at something out of their community or comfort zone provides critical perspective.”
1 “Even one year. The kids in college who took a year off before starting college were three years more mature than the others.”
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2 “If fewer students attend college, the unused dorms can be used for housing of others in the community to allow students to interact with other members of the community and develop a sense of community.”
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2 “We paid the lead Sherpa the equivalent of two year’s wages via a stack of Benjamins for our climbing fee. He paid his countrymen and women a few Rupees a day to do the work and carry the load.”
1 “Humans seek to enslave other humans.”
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[See the “e-ssays” titled “Is College Worthless? (July 25, 2011)” and “Humanity’s Motto: To Enslave And To Colonize (January 27, 2014).”]
Bumper stickers of the week:
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
I have let my schooling interfere with my education.
Occupy Namche Bazaar
Earth Day
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