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...fishing boat called the Radiant foundered in the North Atlantic. Its life craft capsized, and only one of six life jackets inflated properly, an official investigation revealed. One man died, while five others huddled for hours in frigid waters before a rescue helicopter saved them. Scotland's highest civil court is now preparing to hear a $2 million claim against the boat's owners and skipper. The plaintiffs, William Beedie and Shaun Downie, survived, but are demanding compensation for lost wages and psychological trauma...
...assertion that workers are “basically getting parity to crappy wages.” But by what standard is more than double the minimum wage “crappy?” The campaign cherry-picks comparisons with the some of the U.S.’s highest-paid security guards (including Stanford’s over $20 an hour starting salary) and asserts that Harvard is paying below the “market rate.” This sample set hardly proves that current wages are sub-standard—after all, many local security guards...
...lame duck who needs medical attention, and fortunately he can afford it. (And if he couldn't, his bills would be paid for by the people, as is the health care of all Senators and Congressmen.) Besides, Michael Moore had his instructive Bush-bashing in Fahrenheit 9/11, the highest-grossing documentary of all time, earning $119 million at the domestic box office and lots more overseas...
...sick - that it's riddled with inequities and iniquities. He's never the first to address a gut issue, whether it's corporate greed (Roger & Me), American violence (Bowling for Columbine), the politics of terror (Fahrenheit 9/11). But he's the one who does it the noisiest, with the highest entertainment value, mixing muckraking with showmanship, Ida Tarbell with P.T. Barnum. His new movie - which has its world premiere tonight in Cannes, and opens in North America June 29th - fits honorably in that tradition. As both harangue and movie tragicomedy, Sicko is socko...
...again with the Illegal Immigrant & Migrant Responsibility Act. It was going to "seal" the border with more fences and thousands of new border patrol agents. It didn't. By 2000, in fact, the number of illegal immigrants entering the U.S. had risen to almost 2 million a year, the highest ever...