A Good Column

Let me recommend this post by Matt Taibbi, who I think is dead on in lamenting the general anti-union sentiment that seems so rampant in this country. People seem incapable of recognizing that the greatest era of shared economic prosperity in this country (the fifties and sixties) was also the time when unions were the strongest and most active. That was not a coincidence; nor is it a coincidence that the growing gap between the wealthy and middle and lower classes accelerated once Ronald Reagan made it a goal of his administration to tear down unions, both rhetorically and otherwise. I'm sorry I missed the public show of solidarity described by Taibbi by a group of football players; the reaction he further describes by various sportscasters pretty much explains why I find it almost impossible to watch or listen to ESPN or its imitators these days-- too much dunderheaded commentary (even when it has nothing to do with labor issues).