Must the capitalist machine be greased by the blood of its workers?
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007**Warning: there will be an awful lot of frivolous CAPITALIZATION in the following article.**
Our good friend Viper wrote a blog entry about the “Shop Outside the Box” parade. He voiced some questions that many of us struggle with. Primarily, is it really that much different buying a novel from Wal- Mart than from the downtown [...]
Shop outside the box Salt Lake City!
Monday, November 19th, 2007“How low? How low? How low can your wages go?” was a chant heard at Saturday’s anti- Big Box parade in downtown Salt Lake City.
Many local business owners and patrons got together and had a FUN time for a cause. What a wonderfully creative way to send a message to the community and remind them [...]
For the record…
Tuesday, November 6th, 2007Today at a gas station in Provo a sign read:
“We no longer accept checks. We apologize for any incontinence.”
I was so flabbergasted I could not even take a picture, although I was sorely tempted. What a blissfuly humorous blooper.
I am waiting for my brother-in-law, Jake, to stop by…
Monday, October 29th, 2007http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut6LPvSr8Cc
A wrench in the plan
Friday, October 5th, 2007I went to take the pre-test to be a court interpreter today. I would like to think that my Spanish is pretty good but, I showed up and out of 17 people taking the test, I was the only gringa.
The test itself is one part of about 45 hundred little steps in the court [...]
