Jacob Christensen

Having opinions about the state of affairs in other countries is of cause easy, but Wal-Mart is a very interesting phenomenon:

“The meeting leader said, ‘I am not telling you how to vote, but if the Democrats win, this bill will pass and you won’t have a vote on whether you want a union,’” said a Wal-Mart customer-service supervisor from Missouri. “I am not a stupid person. They were telling me how to vote,” she said.

And of cause, as the state of affairs in Wal-Mart is now, employees don’t have a vote on whether they want a union.

Wal-Mart’s ways of treating its employees is curiously reminiscent of what you saw in the old-style communist regimes. We only need the labour camps to complete the picture.

Matthew Yglesias tells us that the invasion of Iraq may have been good for something:

I note, for the record, that Kagan’s current kick about the need to revive great power conflict is orders of magnitude more wrongheaded and dangerous than the post-9/11 “let’s invade Iraq” fad was. My friend DM likes to say that the one good thing about Iraq is that it distracted the neocons from their even crazier war with China schemes, but now those schemes are making a bit of a comeback.

It seems that the redesign and rebranding of del.icio.us (now delicious.com) has caused the automatic daily posting of interesting links, you ought to read as well, to get the hiccups.

For what it is worth, you can find my posted links here: jacobchr1 on delicious.com.

The link feed also appear on my tumblelog.

Having lived in Sweden since 1999, I’m not sure which is the worst:

• Economic growth in Sweden the lowest in seven years.¹
• The quality of this year’s crayfish is dismal.

1. SCB’s data are here. [↩]