March 2, 2004

So a guy in an SUV hits and kills a man on the highway, then drives more than 8 miles to his house, where he finally realizes a body is lodged in the front end of his car. Are you fucking kidding me? Never mind the guy was intoxicated - he had enough awareness to keep from driving off the road on the way home, but didn't know he'd taken on an extra passenger?

Hmmmm. Could be the start of a new SUV ad campaign.

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That grocery strike has come to an end. Workers will shoulder some of the cost of their own medical care, and no raises are written into the contract. New hires will have capped salaries, and take up to four years to reach those caps, which are lower than top pay earned by current employees. New hires will also have to pay more for their health care. The only "victory" the union can declare here is that the employees weren't locked out permanently. In the future, those new hires will become old hires, and wonder why, at their diminished salary, they are paying union dues at all.

Look for many of them to be fired or harassed off the job as Walmarts begin to open up.

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