If you’re unemployed, it’s not because there isn’t any work.
Just look around: A housing shortage, crime, pollution; we need better schools and parks. Whatever our needs, they all require work. And as long as we have unsatisfied needs, there’s work to be done.
So ask yourself, what kind of world has work but no jobs? It’s a world where work is not related to satisfying our needs, a world where work is only related to satisfying the profit needs of business.
This country was not built by the huge corporations or government bureaucracies. It was built by people who work. And, it is working people who should control the work to be done. Yet, as long as employment is tied to somebody else’s profits, the work won’t get done.
"Fiddler on the Roof" in Yiddish proves the musicals unassailability, making it specific while demonstrating its universality.
"Why would Tevye tell us, in Yiddish, the things a Yiddish speaker would already know? Because at the beginning and the end, he is not merely the dairyman of legend. He is an ambassador from a past upended by the constants of Jewish life: disruption and reinvention guided by custom."
I recently learned that the Star-Spangled Banner flag (as in, the flag flown over Fort McHenry that inspired the Francis Scott Key poem) has fifteen stripes instead of thirteen, because the tradition at the time was to increase the number of stripes along with the number of stars as more states joined the union.
I assume this tradition ended because of cowardice.
I've prepared several options to revive the tradition:
The most direct approach. Looks vaguely pink from a distance.
I like how this one emphasizes how much more America there is now than there used to be.
I think plaid fits nicely, too. As a bonus, a lot of existing tablecloths could be converted to this design with just the addition of the canton.
Honestly, I just spent too much time making this one not to post it.
vampire vs. skeleton. what's the vampire gonna do? suck blood the skeleton doesn't have?? on the other hand werewolf vs. skeleton would not be so good. all those bones.
Stan Hansen hit harder than any wrestler, and did his ultraviolent thing first in the states, and then in Japan. His WWE Hall of Fame induction is richly deserved.
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Stan Hansen never stuck around one place for long. At least that's my memory of him, as a kid who was getting into pro wrestling in the 1980s.
Hansen would just appear like a tornado, beat the hell out of your favorite babyface, and then disappear a few months or a year later to do his violent business someplace else.
This made him seem like a barrel-chested force of nature. The type of wrestler who was grappling with his own wild restlessness as much as with other men.
Hansen looked the part, too! A pasty ginger-haired Texan, carrying 300 pounds of flesh & another 10 of bull rope.
One of his tells was that he'd put a plug of chaw in his mouth & scream at everyone around him, mouth hanging open in such a fashion that his face was quickly a mess of tobacco & brown spittle.
He was, in a word, scary in a way a lot of wrestlers weren't, and this was made doubly so by his restlessness. His unfamiliarity meant that he was always fresh when he kicked in the door of whatever territory you were stuck watching, whether that was WWF, NWA, or AWA.
Hansen also hit hard... maybe harder than anyone in pro wrestling history.
His main move was his lariat: a clothesline with his left arm, which wasn't so much meant to catch people in the upper chest or neck as it was to club people. He'd raise his arm after running at his opponent and -- at the split-second before impact -- launch all his muscle into making it connect with enough force to knock someone out.
Seldom has a move so matched the wrestler. For a character who was violence personified, only a finishing move that made you legitimately recoil would do.
It was all an act, of course. The difference between Stan Hansen the psychopathic cowboy & Stan Hansen the soft-spoken Texas gentleman is remarkable.
Or it's all an act, except for the stuff that can't be faked. Those hard hits were both very real... and the result of his terrible eyesight!
The story goes that Hansen had to work stiff because -- if he didn't -- he'd whiff on a punch or slam, and everyone would catch on to the act. Given the choice between going soft (but betraying the business) & going hard (but injuring people), Hansen went with the latter.
The only caveat was that everyone knew, so they went just as hard right back. Classic Stan Hansen matches aren't real in the sense that boxing or MMA are, but they're also not not real in the way most pro wrestling is.
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