Tonight, I’m going to take a break from my usual attempts at making sense of the senseless, aka the US economy. No snarking on the greed and whining of the banksters although a bit on the schadenfreud of watching some corporate greed backfire in the sports world. It will be time enough tomorrow to start wondering and worrying about how the corporatist SCOTUS will manage to screw us in decisions when they open their new session on Monday.

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A well-timed salute to treating labor badly.

At a time when our government is lecturing dictators in other countries about censorship, you’d think they’d be a bit bothered by the manner in which corporations are using our own public airwaves.

In just six weeks, Arizonans will vote on Prop 203: an initiative that will bring medical marijuana to Arizona. But not if the Arizona Cardinals have anything to do with it. The NFL football team donated $10,000 of the team’s money last week to opponents of Prop 203 and medical marijuana in Arizona. We need to fight back the Cardinals’ attacks on cancer patients. Click here to sign Just Say Now’s petition condemning the Cardinals for standing between Arizona patients and their doctors.

Happy that the Major League Baseball Player’s Association condemned Arizona’s misguided, mean-spirited new immigration law. Racial profiling is important to baseball, where 27% of the players are Latino. I urge the NFL, NHL and NBA unions and all the Major Leagues to join them. It’s obvious that Arizona didn’t learn its lesson in 1993. After [...]

Soon that cry will go out over the land, as it does on most Monday nights during football season. We watch the spectacle of the regular season through the playoffs and on to the Super Bowl. We see pro football players dating super models, doing commercials, and being themselves in cameos on TV shows.