Why Did The News Journal Turn Down This Ad?

The SEIU has been working at organizing the janitors at Wilmington Trust HQ. The janitors are hired and managed by Optima Cleaning Systems -- but the SEIU filed unfair labor relations charges against this Optima this past spring with the NLRB. The NLRB and Optima settled at least part of the charges made, which resulted in some monetary restitution by Optima to 7 individuals and required Optima to post where employees could see it a formal notice listing the ways that Optima was not to interfere with organizing activities.

Note to the Media — The Science of Climate Change is NOT a Horserace

And I guess that I should cop to the fact that this note is to Allan Loudell who I heard do an appalling report on the tempest in a teapot that are these emails that wingnuts are insisting are some kind of catastrophe. In this interview, Allan was speaking to a reported from the Christian Science Monitor and their entire conversation was largely organized to talk about climate change as though it is a horserace. Particularly appalling was a question I heard Allan ask ( paraphrasing) noting that there are scientists who are the gatekeepers of the journals and they don't let the deniers publish -- is there anyone who can be trusted to talk about this issue or to definitively answer the questions?

100 Greatest Quotes from The Wire

I loved this show and saw it almost entirely in DVD or via bittorrent. In fact, this show is how I even found out about bittorrent. In any event, this was a brilliantly written show, with alot of memorable and true characters -- with an extra special bonus throughout the seasons if you knew anything at all about Baltimore politics or law enforcement.

Classic Thanksgiving Video Fare

The WKRP in Cincinnati Turkey Drop episode for those of you looking for a small time killer as you recover from your turkey and gravy overdose. This is the very funny end of that episode: