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Monthly Archives: October 2014

Involuntary Servitude in the 21st Century

You just know where this one is going: After his 12-hour shifts at an Amazon warehouse in Las Vegas, Jesse Busk says, he and 200 other workers typically waited in line for 25 minutes to undergo a security check to see whether they had stolen any goods. Upset that the temp agency that employed him […]

Hoist ’em high

One of the more evil things the Republicans do is suppress the vote. Unfortunately for them, they cannot yet explicitly restrict the electorate to Republicans (they're working on that), so, every once in a while a Republican is bound to get swept up in the net. And, it was bound to happen, sooner or later, […]

Small enough to jail

The New York Times reports that car dealers have taken a page from Wall Street: Lenders in the housing boom created so-called liar loans, which enabled borrowers, even those with no income or assets, to inflate their income. Government authorities are now taking aim at a new generation of liar loans. Only this time it […]