RIP Greg Giraldo

From TMZ.com:

Greg had been hospitalized in New Brunswick, NJ after he overdosed on prescription pills last weekend. A source said the overdose was not a suicide attempt.

One of the funniest men around. The Comedy Central Roasts will never be the same.

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Oh Man! Norma Rae like a Mofo, huh?

Buy Union! Vote Union!

From the Sacramento Bee...

Medical marijuana growers join Teamsters union

Their newly negotiated two-year contract provides them with a pension, paid vacation and health insurance. Their current wages of $18 per hour will increase to $25.75 an hour within 15 months, according to the union.

First the users, now the growers. Go Teamsters!

As the Teamsters go, so go the Dems.

Fightin' tea with pot. Nice.

About 100 workers in Oakland's retail medical marijuana dispensaries joined the United Food and Commercial Workers in May. The Teamsters have never tried to organize dispensary workers, because retail has never been an industry in which they have been traditionally involved, Marchetti said.

Kinda like how the Corleones respect the Tattaglia's turf.

Oh yeah, the punchline....

"The Teamsters would never organize an illegal business," Marchetti said.

A Cautionary Tale

The year is 1934.

New Jersey tailor Jacob Maged charges 35 cents to press a man's suit, even though FDR's "Brains Trust" figures the rate should be 40 cents.

Maged trifled by his 5-cent violation of New Jersey's "tailors' code," written in conjunction with the NRA. On April 20, 1934, he was fined $100 -- serious money when the average family income was about $1,500 -- and sentenced to 30 days in jail. The New York Times reported that Maged "was only vaguely aware of the existence of a code." Not that such ignorance was forgivable. It is every citizen's duty to stay up late at night, if necessary, reading the fine print about the government's multiplying mandates.

The guv-ment knows best.

Read the story by George F. Will here

Four More Years! Four More Years! Four More...

From today's PG...

A President named Goodluck? That's amazing.

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Never Forget

Well, That Explains It

I'm not a real big book reader, must be 'cause of that short attention...(what was I saying?) Oh yeah, Dinesh D'Souza has an article on Forbes.com previewing his book about how President Savior thinks. Here's a taste:

It may seem incredible to suggest that the anticolonial ideology of Barack Obama Sr. is espoused by his son, the President of the United States. That is what I am saying. From a very young age and through his formative years, Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction. He came to view America's military as an instrument of neocolonial occupation. He adopted his father's position that capitalism and free markets are code words for economic plunder. Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America. In his worldview, profits are a measure of how effectively you have ripped off the rest of society, and America's power in the world is a measure of how selfishly it consumes the globe's resources and how ruthlessly it bullies and dominates the rest of the planet.

Looks like I gotta buy a bookshelf now.

Long but interesting article. Read it here.

Packin' It In

The boxes reportedly contained balls, bats, gloves, and hope for the future .

Said one player, "Hell, this stuff's  been layin' 'round the clubhouse all season. We're glad to get rid of it!"

So, I Was Wonderin...

• ...is it actually a better idea to take your chances on the roads of Pittsburgh after closing time than it is to try to walk home? And yes, Mr. Thomas W. Brown, unless they're teaching alcoholic arrogance and self-entitlement at Carlynton these days, connecting these two events is nothing but irresponsible sensationalism.
• ...where is it cooler to party these days? Da Strip or the Sahside?
• ...is anyone who thought #7 had a shot at a reduction to 3 games reeeaaally  that much more out of touch with reality than those who thought he'd get a 6 game suspension?
• ...can you say WTF? From the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit:
  
  
  

  you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway — and no reasonable expectation that the government isn't tracking your movements.

• ...what can be better than this for your Labor Day entertaining? (h/t Bluzdude)

Burgers, Dogs, Bacon, Cheese. The 4 Basic Food Groups. Covered