Attention Wal-Mart shoppers, you're buying from scum. No, not the poor schlub at the check-out, or the sad sack greeter, or any of the other hard-working employees - they're just poor folk trying to make a living. And Wal-Mart's doing everything it can to keep them poor, and prevent them from making a decent living. Witness this latest slimey move.

Your kids' teachers belong to a union. Your lawyer belongs to a union (the Bar Association). Your doctor belongs to a union (the AMA/CMA). Your politicians, industrialists, sports heroes, Hollywood actors and writers - all belong to unions. Maybe you even belong to a union (I sure as hell do). Why shouldn't Wal-Mart's employees? Unions came into existence because people with more power (i.e. money) than they deserved (because they turned out to be inclined to abuse it) needed to be resisted. Wal-Mart's a classic example of that, wouldn't you say?

You can go up, or you can go down. Guess which way the administration at Virginia Commonwealth University chose? Evidently, as long as there's money to be had, they'll suck up to the scum of the Earth, no problem. I can't tell you how much it pisses me off when sleazy swine like these drag my profession into their scummy little pig sty.

Oops. Just before shutting down at the end of another long, hard day (well, O.K., not that hard), I came across this news item. Interesting result from a bunch of folks who elected (sort of) Smirkin' Stevie Harper. Of course, he was elected with the same sort of majority that his idol, Dumbya, was elected with. That is, a minority.