Washblog

I know out here in blog-o-topia there are all kinds of people obsessed with 'facts', in large part cuz we get so few useful facts from our sold out media, and we get lots of lousy analysis based on few useful facts.

I hate to call Art's stuff 'point of view', but I thought I'd have to out here in www.fact-o-topia, cuz to me his arguements are perfectly factual and logical!

-- end of rmm reality.

"How is it that a $60 million annual business, which has the state's highest-paid employee as well as assistants who make more than the governor, and which is allied with a lucrative, unregulated national cartel that secures media contracts worth billions and is responsible for staging annually some of the nation's largest entertainment extravaganzas, is not considered professional?

Oh. That's right. Because they don't pay their principal workers.

Let's take this thinking to a logical end: By not paying our armed forces, the Bush administration will be able to declare done the occupation of Iraq. The Pentagon can simply say those 150,000 well-armed Americans are merely private citizens just, uh, hanging out.

Yeah. They're on vacation. That's the ticket.

Chopp's rationale is breathtaking in its foolishness.

As with nearly all big-time jock factories, the UW's football moneymaker is a slick, smart, sophisticated and high-paying industry that exists at such a level only because it does not have to pay even minimum wage to the labor that generates billions (yes, I know about scholarships; but given the required hours versus perceived value, no employed person reading this would ever work that cheap)."