Studs Terkel died today. He wrote about working people from the perspective of a working person. If you haven’t read Working, you’ve missed one of the great oral histories of the twentieth century.
He was unique. I’m sorry he’s gone.
The Concierge

From vonandmoggy :
Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you’re in a heterosexual marriage, and you don’t want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.
Absolutely. Marriage is about love and commitment. The end,

I hate telemarketing calls as much as anyone. Telemarketers, though, are usually underpaid workers doing a crappy job because they need to pay the bills. Them I don’t hate.  This story about the Indiana call center workers who went home rather than read a sleazy McCain phone script makes me feel like being a little [...]

Schieffer: Go vote now. It’ll make you feel big and strong.
Yes!
9:28 Coming to an end, finally. Final comments: McCain is a careful steward of our tax dollars, Obama wants to work on America’s problems in a new way.
9:25 Autism is not the same thing as Down’s Syndrome. Check that with Palin, John.
9:23 Somebody’s gotta pay [...]

Couldn’t make myself actually watch the debate tonight. Instead, I read a bunch of websites that were doing liveblogging. It’s an odd thing to read the responses without watching the thing itself, but I kind of like it. You get a sense of the bits that provoked strong reactions, things that will be drowned in [...]