Top Fives – Wines

The blogocrats really are a smart bunch. Yesterday I came up with an idea for a new series of threads to liven up our Sundays – which tend to be our slow days for enthusiastic discourse, but the blogocrats in the Frolykz thread have pre-empted the idea.
And so, here is our first Top Five [...]

Are Unions still Relevant Anymore?

Joni & Reb invited me to submit a commentary about unionism, I’ve decided to attempt to wind back my usual level of rabidity, to something (perhaps) a little more rational.
Union membership (density) currently stands at about 15% of the private sector workforce. About 20% of the total workforce.
At its peak during the post war period, [...]

Charity begins at home – but not at some retail outlets.

Retail king Harvey Normal thinks that charity is like “helping a whole heap of no-hopers to survive for no good reason”. Funny – that’s how I now feel about shopping at his stores. So – this Christmas, think of whether you’d like to support someone who supports the needy, or someone who thinks that they [...]