Archive for July, 2003
Congratulations on your new promotion!
As an Administrator, you’re exempt from federal overtime regulations. You’re still making minimum wage, but you will no longer get time and a half for working more than 40 hours in a week. Oh, and if you refuse to work overtime, you’re fired. Bob Herbert, writing in the NY Times, details what’s going on: The [...]
So, theft is OK as long as it’s a museum doing the stealing?
Here’s the entire AP article from the SP Times: Museum may get seized Brazilian tribal artifacts By Associated Press © St. Petersburg Times published July 3, 2003 GAINESVILLE – Hundreds of smuggled Brazilian tribal artifacts may soon become part of the collection at the Florida Museum of Natural History now that the government is finished [...]
I’ve said it before: Bush Lies!
The Tribune, which has been mostly silent on Bush’s Tampa fundraiser up to now, sent a low-level reporter to get some color from the crowd of protesters lined up along Dubya’s route. `A President Who Lies’ Across the Courtney Campbell Parkway from the Grand Hyatt Tampa Bay hotel where Bush appeared, about 200 protesters focused [...]
Elaine Cassel on Scalia’s homophobic dissent
Elaine Cassel puts out a great daily column. Today’s examines Antonin Scalia, the hate-filled homophobe who’s our president’s favorite. Like the Catholic Church itself, Scalia’s rant is all about power–his loss of it. It is about exclusion and bigotry. His claim of moral superiority is patently absurd, belied by his own words. For a moral [...]