Clown Shoes

In the news lately has been the plight of the poor fruit and vegetable pickers and their substandard wages. On one side, you have so called advocate groups pushing for higher wages and better working conditions for migrant workers. On the other side are the price conscious factions of consumers and companies. I have a way to quickly and definitively end this debate once and for all. Since everyone knows that higher wages and better working conditions will mean higher prices for things like tomatoes, let the public pick what they care about more. Have one of the large companies divide their operation into half. On one side of the property, increase the wages of the pickers and send those tomatoes to market with the higher price. On the other side of the field, keep everything the same and send those tomatoes to market at the lower prices. In the supermarkets, place a bin of the higher priced tomatoes next to the bin with the lower priced tomatoes and put up a sign clearly explaining what is going on. Tell the shoppers that if they are for higher wages for the workers that they should buy the more expensive tomatoes. If, however, the shoppers are more concerned about their price that they should buy the less expensive tomatoes and watch what happens. I got five bucks that just about everyone, even the worker advocates, buys the cheaper tomatoes and then you will have your answer as to what people actually care about. By the way, the tomatoes that rot in the expensive bins could be used to throw at all of the hypocrites that are clamoring for higher wages and yet buy the cheaper tomatoes anyway…

Scientists have found that Antarctica is having an unusually cool summer this year. I bet it is being caused by global warming. Somewhere Al Gore’s big ass pair of clown shoes just got a little bigger kind of like Pinocchio’s nose did. I don’t know what’s bigger, Al Gore’s carbon footprint from his energy wasting mansion or the footprints his shoes leave. Well, at least he provides us with plenty of laughter in these dark days of climate change…

Who said racism was dead? Leave it to the Bible Belt to keep the practice of discrimination due to skin color alive and well. It seems that in a dance competition in Atlanta, GA, there were calls to disqualify a group of dancers because of the fact that they weren’t the same race as the rest of the contestants. That’s right, because of skin color! It’s hard to believe that in this day and age that all of the hard work that Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have put forth for the last several decades has gone for naught. I mean, can you even believe that people could be so ridiculously ignorant that they not only would discriminate against a group because of the way the look, but they would publicly announce their position? Did they actually think that they would get the support of anyone? Perhaps I am being naïve in thinking that no one in their right mind would actually say things like this out loud. I think all racists should be ashamed of themselves and should be shunned by the rest of their race for making them all look like idiots. Jack asses! Stupid assholes! The organizers of this racist event should be ridiculed early and often… In case you were wondering, the event is the National Spirit Step Off Competition which is an event usually frequented by black college sororities and fraternities and the object of the racism is the ZTA organization of the University of Arkansas. They are a group of white dancers…