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it’s a three umbrella day

The clock is ticking. I received a fall catalogue in the mail yesterday, which to my eccentric mind signaled a moment to celebrate summer before it is over. When I was seven summers lasted what seemed forever. Now they fly by. They’re too hot too. I think kids take the heat better then adults or maybe because of social conditioning we’re just too aware of the things that happen when the adult human body meets one hundred percent humidity.

Speaking of bodies and heat, The Urban Etiquette Handbook

While I’m aware of how hypocritical our collective etiquette can be, it also keeps us from bludgeoning each other to death more frequently then we already do. That might be a split infinitive, but that is OK because this is my blog and I can do that.

I am pro labor. I have been in the hell otherwise known as middle-management. You could say that middle management is like a hill from where you can see all the faults and foibles of the big shots that make the real money and the people that do the real work. For every notebook and pen that has found itself into an employees home office an executive has made an unhealthy amount of money on an idea stolen from a working stiff with two kids and a mortgage he/she can’t afford. It is an absolute art, the face that someone makes who just drove up in a Lexus as they regret that the year end bonus will not be so great this year as they have to cut costs. They must learn that fake empathy in bull sh*t school. Anyway on with the link, Gutting Labor Rights for Nurses — and Millions of Others

Today, nurses will rally across the country to protest likely decisions by the National Labor Relations Board that would declare most Registered Nurses (RNs) to be “supervisors” under the law and therefore stripped of any protection under labor law. If these rulings go as expected, hundreds of thousands of RNs across the country could be fired at will if they say anything positive about unions or are even suspected of being in favor of unions.

The Real Agenda