From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   One of the downsides of my father visiting is he likes   
   having a particular news channel playing all day. That's   
   his choice, so whatever.   
      
   But *my* having to perpetually hear the clueless -   
   regardless of side/tribe - gets old quickly.   
      
   At the moment, someone is speaking at some "trade union   
   conference" (where the president will supposedly be   
   speaking in less than an hour... I'll likely need to   
   leave the room to avoid having to listen to that babbling   
   idiot wax incapable-of-doing-the-job...) in favor of trade   
   unions, what a wonderful thing they are, how we need to   
   bring the message of the wonderfulness of trade unions to   
   those without union jobs, etc., etc.   
      
   I guess I understand the deluded motivation. But, my effing   
   *gosh*, it seems to me the pinnacle of what's usually   
   referred to as "rocket science" to ignore that trade unions   
   - like all collective systems - can (and almost certainly   
   will) devolve to doing more harm than good the far more   
   fundamental problem of ego manifesting as asshole-ism to   
   each other isn't *first and foremost* addressed.   
      
   At least *some* conservatives *somewhat* understand this   
   by putting their trust in the "free" market to deliver   
   good/jobs in proportional to how big an asshole one wishes   
   to be.   
      
   But liberals should have their collective picture taken to   
   serve as the image shown first on the Wikipedia "Bat Shit   
   Crazy Delusion" page (were there such a page), because   
   their solutions almost always presume the non-existence   
   of assholes, and thus couldn't possibly work for long   
   in practice.   
      
   --   
   oldernow   
   xyz001 at nym.hush.com   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)