Yesterday I read this article about Wal-Mart increasing their part-time staff to 40% of its workforce and establishing caps on employees wages. I wish I could say that this is a new low, but I’ve been working under those same crappy conditions for 3 years now AND I AM A STATE COLLEGE EMPLOYEE. (Sorry foer the scream caps, but everyone is always shocked that school employees are not all the coddled

I was going to make a handy chart of polical sex scandals after hearing about Mark Foley’s attempts to seduce a 16 year old congressional page via emails, which is in violation of a law that Foley co-sponsored.

But then I found out that Wikipedia has this handy list of politcal sex scandals and I figured I’d just give you all the link as laziness has won the day.

Just from a quick reading, Democrats have sex with willing adults (Clinton, McGreevey) and are torn to bits over it, Republicans try to seduce children and it’s seen as mildly naughty behavior. WTF?

I am a big proponent of the Scandinavian hybrid economies. You know, a big happy layer of socialist cake on the bottom topped by a decadent layer of capitalist frosting on top.

So it is with much happy making that I am linking to this How the World Works post by Andrew Leonard (if you’re not reading How the World Works on a regular basis then you should be, it’s great for global economics geekiness.)

It turns out “That, in effect, the better you treat your workers, the more effective you are in the global economy.” All you freakish free-trader, anti-regulation, race-to-the-bottom pissheads can stick that in you pipe and smoke it.