Things leftists don’t want to know. Employers across the midwest are complaining about a shortage of workers, particularly at the entry level, according to First National Bank of Chicago economist Diane Swonk. In some areas of Wisconsin the unemployment rate is less than 2 percent.
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“Of late on Sundays I have trespassed into an odd parish, far from Lincoln Park,” writes labor lawyer Tom Geoghegan in Slate (October 23). “Blue-collar, immigrant, even poor, but the pastor may be an academic. A different priest at 12:30 every Sunday….Three languages. St. Paul in Tagalog. Because the priests are from universities, the homilies are pitched at a high level. Doubt anyone in the pews ever saw a college. One Sunday, a young Irish priest told a grad-student joke about Americans tackling German theology. He heard it when he was a student at the University of Tubingen. I burst out laughing. Only one. Around me: stone faces. Filipino, Mexican, Lao. Not a smile.”
Incorruptible. A local shareholder in the community-supported Angelic Organics farm was carrying home her box of veggies one afternoon when she was accosted by a policeman: “Miss! Miss! Can you tell me where you got that box?” He’d seen a TV program and wanted to know where to get the produce. She gave him AO’s phone number and offered him a carrot from her box. “No, ma’am. I can’t take a carrot while I’m on duty.” (Angelic Organics Farm News, September 9-14.)
It’s something my parents did for me. The suburban-based American Society of Anesthesiologists reports that about 50 percent of children from families in which someone smokes need oxygen therapy after surgery–compared to just 5 percent of children from smoke-free homes.
