Brigid
Brigid's JournalAt least they built a memorial.
I'm watching a doc where at one point they talk about the construction of the Hoover Dam. General Superintendent Frank Crowe drove the workers hard, and received a $4 million bonus for completing it two years ahead of schedule. 96 workers died during construction. According to wikipedia, some deaths which were actually caused by carbon monoxide poisoning were attributed to pneumonia so that the company would not have to pay workers' comp claims. But hey, at least they got a memorial. It says, "They died to make the desert bloom." 
Just found out it's the 35th Anniversary for the classic movie "Animal House."
I am digging out my DVD right away in honor of this historic occasion. I have the "Double Secret Probation" edition.
"Yeah? So I lied to her."
"You can't lie to a nun, Jake. We gotta go in and visit The Penguin."
" No fucking way."
"You two were such a disappointing pair. I prayed so hard for you. It saddens and hurts me so that the two young men I raised to believe in the Ten Commandments have returned to me as two thieves with filthy mouths and bad attitudes. Get out! And don't come back -- until you've redeemed yourselves!"
Yes, I'm watching "The Blues Brothers!" I love The Penguin! Kathleen Freeman says people still recognize her from that role. 
"I have no idea what that is."
-- "The Most Interesting Man in the World" on "bromance."
And tonight's fortune cookie reads:
"One who is too insistent on his own views finds few to agree with him." 
I am really missing Keith Olbermann these days.
Couldn't you just hear his patented Special Comments on George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin?
OK, so I was just waiting at the bus stop and . . .
Heard hammering. I looked over to my left, and there was a truck from a roofing company parked in the driveway of the fairly large house. Guys doing roof construction on a day like this -- 87° and muggy. In other words, they might as well be working in a sauna. Yikes! 
"They did it right. You have to stand up.
"You may not win, but you have to stand up."
--Margaret Hager, daughter of a coal miner.
Back in 1921, when she was 10 years old, a violent strike broke out in the coal fields of Mingo County, WV, known as the Battle of Blair Mountain. A bomb, dropped by a plane hired by the mine owners, landed in her family's back yard.
A tidbit from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States":
Quoting Senator John Sherman, author of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, on the need to address the concerns of the critics of monopoly: "They had monopolies . . . Of old, but never before such giants as in our day. You must heed their appeal or be ready for the socialist, the communist, the nihilist. Society is now disturbed by forces never felt before . . ."
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