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BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
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So now that Fox News has said that we are ‘imploding’, there are now two recommended diaries making fun of this.
It’s all fun and games, but I’m extremely disturbed at how often this stuff seems to come up. I swear I see a diary on the rec list every day about dKos. Far too much navel-gazing going on…
Please open your dictionaries to page 811 and follow along…the word of the day is:
omphaloskepsis
There will be a vocabulary test on Friday…
Well, at least I learned a new word out of that. How did you ever hear of it to begin with?!
in a response to a meta diary sometime back…dictionaries are my friend…amazing what you can learn from reading BT…:{)
I laughed and laughed and then I came back two hours later and I laughed some more. Thanks Dada.
You bring up some frustrations I understand very well. I try to laugh, but sometimes it seems to get so stupid and intrude so far into conversations where it doesn’t belong that I feel as though I’m drowning in a huge pile of stinky, sweaty lint.
From the CNN story on Ken Lay’s memorial service:
The Reverend Dr. Bill Lawson compared Lay with civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. and Jesus Christ, and said his name would eventually be cleared.
“He was taken out of the world right at the right time,” he said. “History has a way of vindicating people who have been wronged.”
WWJF? (Who would Jesus fleece?)
Wonder how the folks who lost their life and retirement savings felt when they heard that…
Oh for the love of Godde. That is just beyond the pale. Such hubris.
The United Workers organizes the low-wage day laborers who clean Camden Yards.
They joined anti-sweatshop Pittsburgh Pirates fans for protests at this week’s
All Star game. The fans are demanding that their home team take a stand and
go to bat for sweatshop-free baseball gear, and invited the cleaners at Camden
Yards to join the protests. Not only did the cleaners join the fight for sweatshop-free
gear, but they also got to confront Orioles owner Peter Angelos, who made and
then broke a promise to pay the cleaners a living wage at the stadium. Here
are some photos from the confrontation.
Peter Angelos in Pittsburgh at the 2006 All Star Game walks to his hotel just
outside of PNC Park. United Workers members were in Pittsburgh to support sweatshop-free
baseball protests at the game and to let Angelos know that the cleaners at Camden
Yards are still waiting for him to keep his word to pay a living wage. In this
photo Angelos turns his back to the workers just after realizing that he was
being confronted by Camden Yards cleaners.
Todd, the United Workers leadership organizer yells at Angelos – telling him
to honor his word and pay cleaners a living wage. Angelos turns his back on
Todd and workers present, while some of the other mega-millionaire "baseball
fans" look on. With the All Star game now a millionaire-fest for the benefit
of baseball’s corporate-suite elite, these fans represent who was in Pittsburgh
for the All Star game.
Security guards pushed the United Workers back as Angelos enters his hotel.
Erenst, who has worked at Camden Yards as a cleaner for years (even back when
pay was $4 an hour before the cleaners got organized at the stadium) speaks
to Angelos’s hotel, demanding that Angelos come out and look the cleaners in
the eye and answer why he broke his promise.
Nicee, another cleaner at Camden Yards, speaks her mind to Angelos as well.
After about a half-hour of being shouted at, Angelos takes a peak at the protesting
cleaners outside his All Star hotel.
two more volunteers for the Ten Underreported Stories if anyone is interested.
Still open:
*DR of Congo
*South Asian earthquake
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As the meta-stomach turns, real shizznit’s goin’ down. Example, From the frontlines:
Check out the rest at Lenin’s Tomb.