Red Clay Citizen

Unions vs. Walmart

What happens every time a union tries to put a collar around the neck of the largest employer in North America?  One of two things:  The union vote fails or the vote passes and Walmart shuts the doors on that store.  Why, you may ask?  Because Walmart knows that setting up a third party as a defacto staffing agency and giving control over your company to a leadership team concerned only with continually increasing union dues is bad for business. 

Question:  Have you ever seen any butchers in Walmart?  Several years ago you might have until the butchers voted to unionize whereupon management decided to sell only precut meat in the stores.  So what do you do if you are a union and you can't crack the Walmart nut through secret ballot elections?  You get rid of the secret ballot via card check.

 As usual, Red Planet Cartoons has a picture that says a thousand words:

Reflections on Child Labor and Marx

A delightful piece from Tony Woodlief, whom I'm proud to say I know. A sliver:

"Sure, Marx advocated common ownership of property, which he might have been cured of had he observed children around a bag of cookies."

More where that came from.
-Max Borders

Google's Green Parody

I can think of no more fitting irony than this "awareness raising" initiative by Google. Why such smart people at such a great company would get into this kind of goofy greenwashing? Anyway, this sums up the irony:

"As to why we don't do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display." This is pretty much analogous to all the (marginal) energy conservation programs like NC Greenpower. In other words, it's sort of like this: if everyone stopped using Google to educate themselves on how to use fewer Google searches (and it worked) Google would have fewer incentives to invest in new algorithms and technologies for Web searches. 'But the human mind is an unlimited resource and fossil fuels are not' Google might reply.

The late great Julian Simon argued they - human ingenuity linked to the use of resources - are one in the same. Resources never run out. I think I'll leave my computer on all night tonight.
-Max Borders

Libertarianism for Progressives

Print and read.
-Max Borders