Happy All Souls Day. It's probably my favorite non-obligatory feast day of the year.
Occupy a Job Already
The Occupy Wall Street people need to go home. I sympathized with them at first: I hate Wall Street, too. But it's obvious that it's a direction-less and empty-headed movement that would make the most-stoned sixties radical blush at its vapidness.
And they're not doing anything constructive, not employing anyone, not doing anything, except hurting others:
Twenty-one restaurant workers lost their jobs last week because of the Occupy Wall Street protests, the cafe owner said Tuesday.
Marc Epstein, owner of the Milk Street Cafe at 40 Wall St., said he had no choice but to let nearly a quarter of his staff go last Friday after he saw his sales drop by 30 percent in the six weeks since the protests started.
Link.
But hey, they're calling for a general strike today. It'd be our first in something like 75 years. If they pull it off, I guess I'll have to eat these electronic words.
Drinking Corner
Michigan apparently doesn't have enough red tape and bureaucratic oversight. What's just one more little requirement!
A new state law geared toward reducing underage drinking will require any beer keg sold or returned after Nov. 1 to bear a state-issued tag that will enable law enforcement to trace who purchased it.
For retailers and breweries that sell kegs, the law means more paperwork and the potentially unpleasant task of scrubbing stickers off of kegs when they are returned.
For consumers it means more paperwork and more accountability, but it also means if they have a keg they haven't returned by Nov. 1, they may be out of luck getting their $30 deposit back.
Link.
Daggone neo-Prohibitionists.
