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Irregular commentary on whatever's on my mind -- politics, sports, current events, and life in general. After twenty years of writing business and community newsletters, fifteen years of fantasy baseball newsletters, and two years of email "columns", this is, I suppose, the inevitable result: the awful conceit that someone might actually care to read what I have to say. Posts may be added often, rarely, or never again. As always, my mood and motivation are unpredictable.

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Wednesday, February 23, 2011

You Can Always Count On The Columbus Dispatch . . .




. . . to write the dumbest, dimmest, dip-shittiest editorials in the world! "Ohio's Greatest Home Newspaper" had already come out in favor of Senate Bill 5 (ooh, I nearly keeled over from the shock!), but that wasn't enough for Ben Marrison, Glenn Sheller, and the rest of John Wolfe's lackeys.

Today, they pried their lips off his ass long enough to write an editorial column that claimed that public employees are not representative of the middle class. The Dispatch says they're pretty much upper class. They claim that these workers have income and benefits and economic security far superior to private sector workers, and their opposition to SB 5 is simply to protect their own elite "priveleged status".

You can't judge a book by its cover, but I was at the Statehouse yesterday, and I didn't see anybody who looked to be a member of the priveleged upper class elite. Saw a lot of Wolverine boots and Carhartt overalls.

And I bet any one of those caviar-eating, champagne-sipping, upper-crust public-sector workers would trade checkbooks and retirement accounts with the Dispatch editors in a New York second.

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