Pretty amazing how much time you have when work is slow and you can't ride or lift. It's really kicking up the blogging to the next level. Don't worry though, gimme 4 more weeks and I'll go back to updating every month or so.
Meanwhile...
Anyone been paying attention to what's going down in Frenchy-ville? That country has some seriosly liberal labor laws (say that ten times drunk), and thier system works pretty well. Poor bastards tried to pass a law allowing employers to fire employees under 26 within two years of thier hire date without cause, making the ex-employee inelligible for any kind of unemployment support.
Students and socialists had an absolute fit. Pretests everywhere, riots in the streets, general mayhem all over the place and all aimed at killing that one law. Seemed for a while kinda futile. Students vs. government.
But they won. Forced the government to overturn the law.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong. Just interesting.
Indymedia article
NY Times article
MSNBC article
DT
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Once upon a time, students here in this very country (yes, kids) got all riled up about a war unwisely waged and fought at their expense, and made a difference. It got a little ugly before it was over too. Especially at Kent State. But they won.
But that was a long time ago...
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