One of the most entertaining parts of doing prepatory research for my C.I.W./alt-labor column at Reason.com: reading through several pro-employer lobby websites dealing with CIW and alt-labor groups, in which pro-business conservative moaning about all the “loopholes” in NLRB labor law, and urging Congress to pass stricter labor regulations so that the NLRB can intervene more aggressively in labor market disputes. http://ift.tt/1f9nW9H http://ift.tt/19Zb34J etc. #Unions #LaborLaw #StateCapitalism #BossesForBureaucracyGreedAndBigGovernment

To-day, I’m @ Reason.com: http://ift.tt/1d66OiJ In which I write about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, alt-labor tactics, farmworker organizing, and CIW’s recent victory in getting a penny-per-pound agreement from Walmart. #CIW #FellowWorkers #WildcatUnionism

Vote Alfred Bester. (He’s on the second page, which is itself as gross an injustice as anything else on this list.)

Huh. Classes at AU apparently cancelled tomorrow, on the possibility that there might be “more than 2 inches of snow”? http://ift.tt/1jCdxsQ (Queue up image macro about snow and school in the North and South, I guess. . .)

Q. Do any of y’all knowledgeable on Virginia, early US history, or the history of slavery know of any evidential basis or explanation for the following assertion about Virginia law: “For only 8 years was it legal. Virtually from its inception c. 1650 to 1865, freeing slaves in Virginia was illegal . . .” Made here: http://ift.tt/Mm86Rq as part of a partial apologia for Thomas Jefferson? The Virginia statute books from both before and from years after Jefferson’s death seem directly to contradict this: http://ift.tt/1mP3X3f http://ift.tt/Mm84sL Maybe there is something that I am missing? But if so, what?

From a popular liberal Twitter stream: http://ift.tt/RhpUwX “I am a Socialist [sic] Because I Like the Military, Police, . . . FBI, CIA, Student Loans, etc.” Jesus. You said it, man, not me.

More prison-nation fascism from Boss Arpaio.

http://ift.tt/1mYhIPN “Insofar as the targets of their ire . . . only question the worth of wealthy females in that way, they have a valid, important point. My point in writing this post is different, however. My response to their outrage is that libertarians and anarchists severely doubt the deservedness of every billionaire’s fortune and, in fact, the fortunes of many millionaires in business, industry, and politics. Our doubt as to the legitimacy of the fortunes of many large business owners, CEOs, and the like is practically a given. The illegitimacy of their fortunes is so understood that we hardly mention it explicitly. Instead, we tend to focus on the success of large corporations and other businesses when their success is owed in part to State interference in the economy. We assume as a matter of course that large businesses (and therefore their owners and executives) amassed such power and wealth through at least partially nefarious means, either by design (through lobbying and rent-seeking) or more indirectly (such as by incidentally benefiting from a regulation or barrier to entry, or by consciously taking advantage of regulations already on the books).” – John @ Blagnet.net

I don’t give a damn that Simply Orange is extensively processed in order to produce incredibly delicious orange juice; in fact I think this is a triumph of modern civilization. However, I am saddened and grossed out to find out that it’s owned by Coca-Cola. Ugh.

Paneer vindaloo, definitely one of the delightfully non-horrible products of Portuguese imperialism.