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• 93 Supermarket strike — week 3

  One thing I hear from people when talking about this is, "Yeah, but Safeway Co. is turning a profit." As if that's an argument against cutting benefits. Well, let's be clear on something. It's Safeway's fiduciary responsibility to turn profits.

  in Culture — by Walter Enderby — on Oct 26, 2003

• 92 DIY

  in Music — by Walter Enderby — on Oct 24, 2003

• 91 Fidel is waiting for your call

  This is a common tactic used by leftist critics of capitalism — try to make the case that workers suffer because CEOs are raping them in order to sip Dom Perignon from diamond-encrusted slippers.

  in Culture — by Walter Enderby — on Oct 15, 2003

• 90 Money-grubbin' capitalists

  I offered the old man a ride to Trader Joe's to buy some tofu. "Nope, I can't cross a picket line," he said. I tried to explain that Trader Joe's was non-union. "Nope. I can't do it." So, I stated the obvious. "But you've got to eat." He shook his head and said, "I've got plenty of food in the house."

  in Culture — by Walter Enderby — on Oct 14, 2003

• 89 Lost in the supermarket

  A supermarket strike is one of those events that, literally, hits close to home.

  in Culture — by Walter Enderby — on Oct 11, 2003

• 88 The Recall Quagmire

  Today's Times piece is devastating. It paints a dark picture of our future governor. He is a man who doesn't root for the underdog, like most of us do; rather he teases and tortures the weak and the powerless.

  in Culture — by Walter Enderby — on Oct 03, 2003

• 87 Seattle Mountain Music

  in Music — by Walter Enderby — on Oct 03, 2003

• 86 In praise of cheesecake

  In the marketplace of eye candy, pinups long ago lost out to porn.

  in Culture — by Walter Enderby — on Oct 02, 2003

• 85 Rockabilly comes and goes

  They managed to take the genre places neither Brian Setzer nor Rev. Horton Heat could ever manage.

  in Music — by Walter Enderby — on Oct 01, 2003

• 84 Johnny Cash

  Johnny Cash is such a complete man. He is the prototypical all-American male. He out John Waynes John Wayne, is more rugged than Clint Eastwood, has more class than Frank Sinatra, makes Ronald Reagan look like a flag burner, cares for the downtrodden and exploited more than Michael Moore and is no less faithful than Billy Graham.

  in Music — by Walter Enderby — on Sep 12, 2003