by Mike Hall AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka says that Saturday’s Tucson, Arizona assassination attempt against Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat, and the murder of six of her constituents, serves as a terrible reminder to all of our political and civic leaders about the need to end the use of appeals to violence in our political…
Daily Archives: January 11, 2011
Is Facebook Bad For You?
The Big Picture by Glynn Wilson After a two year experiment with the social networking Web software Facebook, and after a few harried days of dealing with the fallout from dingbats and amateurs who have no business trying to run the news links business, I sort of feel like my old friend Tommy Stevenson at…
A Carolina Chickadee in the First Snow of 2011
Glynn Wilson A Carolina chickadee [poecile carolinensis], one of the usual suspects, is not shy about letting me know when the bird feeder is empty. Like Norman Maclean’s brother said in A River Runs Through It, “I only need three more years before I can think like a fish,” maybe in three more years I…
