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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Required (NFL) Reading

Rick Reilly has always been one of my favorite sports writers.  He's good for a hanky or a laugh, whatever it takes.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=6388708

This is one of the best articles I've read about the Lockout.  The whole "millionaires vs billionaires" meme was true to an extent in the MLB labor dispute in 1994.  But it's much less true in the NFL, at least for most players.

America's hostility to unions is reflexive and unthinking.  We just seem to hate them, largely because so few of us belong to them.  But it's gotten to the point where we hate the guys getting locked out?

I don't understand, and neither does Reilly.

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