George Clooney and Me

Whodathunkit? I’m actually on George Clooney’s side – regarding one thing. He had a little tantrum when WGA arbitration went against him and decided to go fi-core. I’m not supporting the tantrum, but George “Blind Squirrel” Clooney did what I wish every union member would do.

The unions hate “financial core” members, even though they lie through their teeth about how much money is spent on politics and collect an absurd amount of money from them. They hate fi-core because, if everybody did it, the union would cease to exist.

And wouldn’t that be lovely?

A New Look

In the course of setting up another blog I found a theme which I rather like. What do you think of the new look?

NB: If the type seems small, remember that Safari and Firefox can make it bigger with ⌘+. This works on lots of web pages, and is a handy trick to know for those of us with older eyes. Most browsers have a way of doing that, even on Windows, I’m told.

Well, at least it would get her out of the State Department

where she has been an absolute embarrassment. I have my doubts that McCain would pick up anybody from W’s administration.

A Dad Who Gets It

This tells me all I need to know about what kind of man his son was.