New Orleans Hurricane Sandy was tragic in every way that one can imagine, but it was also tragic in the same way that all “acts of god” reduce the scale of mankind’s hand in the environment as inconsequential in the face of nature. In the wake of even larger devastation from Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans and …
Month: November 2012
Walmart Shots across the Bow at Union
New Orleans In the past we’ve tried to suggest that Walmart’s reaction to UFCW’s current organizational efforts are serious and in some cases shrewd, particularly when they pressured their subcontractors at their distribution centers to reinstate workers to avoid obvious unfair labor practice charges in recent months. Coming on the heels of huge publicity for their …
Disaggregating the News in 500 Words or Less
New Orleans Supposedly one of the more popular things on Google, Yahoo, Huffington Post, and a score of other sites is their ability to “aggregate” the news. I wonder if what we really need is some clear, crawlspaces allowing us to escape out from under the avalanche of information burying us alive. Here’s a short, idiosyncratic …