When the going gets strange, the strange get going. Politics always has its share of irrational arguments, but a barrage of the bizarre often establishes a pattern. If you’ve seen it before, experience kicks in to tell you that it’s a much bigger argument than you might have otherwise thought. At some point you just have to accept the unexplainable for just what it is.
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Labor Day
Monday is what we call a “holiday”, the word rooted in “Holy Day” or, at the very least, a day of celebration. It’s one of the lost days of our calendar in the sense that very few people seem to understand that Labor Day was a day meant to celebrate the simple fact that everything we have was made by the efforts of someone otherwise unnamed. It was a day on the opposite side of Summer from May Day, when the rest of the world celebrates the same thing. That was colored with the memories of the Haymarket Riot and nasty stories from Europe. This is a day to celebrate American Labor – and the Union movement that brought us the weekend, among other things.
Unheeded
Perhaps it’s just the waning warmth of summer closing around me like a blanket on a fall day, but I’ve had a feeling lately. Events have conspired to make me think about the long term perspective on what is going on in our world, the bigger picture that I like to think is what I do best. Digging into this feeling with a series of internet searches uncovered a wealth of information that I have to share so that, if nothing else, you can all make your own conclusions about things.
Barataria - The work of Erik Hare 