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In the words of Max B, "what did @#$%ing fried chicken ever do to you except be @#$%ing delicious?"
Let your stent be the answer.
RETURNING today to political news after a couple weeks spent moving house from Iowa City to Houston, I find that nothing both interesting and important has transpired in the interim. The presidential race is a bit of a nail-biter, for those of us who bite our nails in boredom. Even the Olympic medal-count contest between America and China is dull. Say what you will about the looming risk of total nuclear annihilation, it kept the Olympics interesting. Maybe it would help if China's numerous medal winners were cast more in the mould of Ivan Drago or the hulking East German lady swimmers of yore, because tiny synchronised divers just don't inspire the same enlivening sense of terrifying rivalry.
Olympics aside, I've kept abreast (so to speak) only of the Chick-fil-A controversy, thanks to the exceedingly thorough coverage afforded this most pressing issue by Houston's intrepid network-television news teams. Though several local "kiss-ins" were granted cursory coverage, for balance, the sight of lines of conservative Houstonians snaking around area Chick-fil-A franchises had our local news squads almost frothing with excitement. One elderly woman was captured on camera declaring Dan Cathy, Chick-fil-A's president, "my hero" for making a stand against same-sex marriage. Waiting in wilting heat to uphold family values and honour a hero by eating a chicken sandwich was really the least she could do.
It's my view that this sort of skirmish in the culture wars is an inevitable consequence of trends in "ethical consumption" and "corporate social responsibility". Conservatives sceptical of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement have often charged that CSR is a stalking horse for liberal causes that have failed to get traction through ordinary political channels. This charge finds some support, I think, in the fact that few in the media seem to see Chick-fil-A's Christian-influenced culture and business practices as an example of CSR, though obviously it is. Doesn't the demand that corporations act responsibly in the interests of society, in ways other than profit-seeking, directly imply that corporate leaders who find same-sex marriage socially irresponsible should do something or other to discourage it? Ian Reifowitz, writing in the Huffington Post, finds it "troubling" that Chick-fil-A prefers Christians as franchise owners, but rightly sees that the source of his unease when generalised may complicate CSR-like corporate policies:
Whether it's legal or illegal, I still find these company policies troubling, although it is a complex issue. Let's say there was a restaurant chain that decided to put out a statement saying: "In addition to our commitment to non-discrimination and equal treatment, we prefer franchise operators who share our commitment to progressive values." Would you be comfortable with that? Would it feel right morally to you?
That checks out morally for me. People can run their businesses according to whatever principles they prefer. It's just stupid business for owners and managers who want to sell their firm's goods and services to people who don't happen to share their morals or politics, especially in cultures in which consumers are increasingly expected to vote with their wallets.
Matters of moral truth aside, what's the difference between buying a little social justice with your coffee and buying a little Christian traditionalism with your chicken? There is no difference. Which speaks to my proposition that CSR, when married to norms of ethical consumption, will inevitably incite bouts of culture-war strife. CSR with honest moral content, as opposed to anodyne public-relations campaigns about "values", is a recipe for the politicisation of production and sales. But if we also promote politicised consumption, we're asking consumers to punish companies whose ideas about social responsibility clash with our own. Or, to put it another way, CSR that takes moral disagreement and diversity seriously—that really isn't a way of using corporations as instruments for the enactment of progressive social change that voters can't be convinced to support—asks companies with controversial ideas about social responsibility to screw over their owners and creditors and employees for...what?
I'd suggest the best arena for moral disagreement is not the marketplace, but our intellectual and democratic institutions. We hash out our disagreements, as best we can, in public deliberation. The outcome of this deliberation becomes input to official policymaking, which in turn determines the rules of the game for business. Businesses then seek profits within the scope of those rules (and the consensus rules of common decency), and consumers buy the products that best satisfy their preferences. If businesses want to impose on themselves other constraints, fine. But let's not ask them to do so. And if consumer preferences happen to range over the production chains and management philosophies behind the goods and services they buy, fine. But let's not ask them to have such pernsickety and political preferences. Of course, this lovely, welfare-maximising arrangement will from time to time break down. For example, when we lose faith in the capacity of our public institutions to reliably translate the results of honest democratic negotiation into policy. Or when old consensus rules of common decency lose general assent.
For my part, I'm in the market for chicken sandwiches, not a fraudulent sense of moral superiority. I'll register my opinion on marriage equality come November.
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In the words of Max B, "what did @#$%ing fried chicken ever do to you except be @#$%ing delicious?"
Let your stent be the answer.
First, good to have you back... I hope you don't have to drive much for your job, Houston's traffic can be pretty miserable.
Secondly, you're spot on in your penultimate paragraph. One simple question (with apologies to Barney Frank): On what planet do you spend most of your time?
An educated discourse that informs the polity for business rules & regulation, wherein the businesses compete for maximum profit? Admittedly, you identify that it occasionally breaks down.
I'm thinking the first time the breakdown was popularly recorded was in the Leviathon blog by D.R. | London in the 18th century with his expose on rent seeking.
It's been going on ever since... the revolting bit of Citizens United isn't that businesses can spend whatever they want, it's that we [Yanks, other residents of the USA] don't know who is spending what for/against what.
Absent the utopian vision above, our wallets are the votes that matter.
Very good point. We (in the US, anyway) are guaranteed free speech; the issue is whether it extends to corporations as well. But nowhere does it guarantee anyone free anonymous speech.
W.W., welcome to Houston! Sorry you had to move here during the summer, did no one warn you about the weather?
Not sure if you're in the market for burgers as well, but if you're near downtown you should try Lankford's Grocery. They have some great ones.
A businessman (during interview) states his personal opinion: Marriage should be between a man and a woman.
A college professor (during an OWS event) states his personal opinion: We should kill the "1%". Every busniessman, business woman, even the family farmer...if their net worth puts them in the 1%...let's kill them.
What makes these left wing liberal democrats so close minded? Express the liberal democrat view? That's good. Express the conservative view? That's not allowed. I just don't get what makes these idiot democrats tick.
I see that the Obama campaign already has tens of thousands of volunteers that are posting liberal comments on blogs like "The Economist". See link below. Okay volunteer democrat welfare recipients...what do you have to say?
Yes, that's not a straw man at all. I'm sure there's a bunch of college professors are out there calling for the death of the 1% - at least in your fantasies.
Who's not allowing who to express their opinion? The left-wing is saying that if you express conservative views, you are their enemy and they are not going to support you or want you around. Nobody is upset that someone can say something they disagree with - they are upset that the other person holds that position.
I don't see how it's close-minded to disagree with someone or to follow your principles. Of course, those principles could be based on close-mindedness - but I think that's a problem of the right rather than the left.
But here I am arguing with a clear troll ... what's the moderation policy here?
what's the moderation policy here?
Ha! turning to a private company to enforce your political preferences, are we? HAVE YOU LEARNED NOTHING HERE!
Well with a name like 'try working for a living' and the ad hominems a man looks to an objective standard...
Just trying to 'elevate the discourse' - figured it might be fitting here on the day Loughner pleads guilty :P
Thank goodness we have the GOP and their demagogues to give a lesson of tolerance to the left and moderates not in their fold.
the moderators generally wait until posts are flagged it seems... so I flag most of that guy's posts, because most of the posts violate one or more policies on this site.
Personally, I try to save my flags for posts which are much more egregious.
tryworkingforaliving is a bit extreme, and frequently close-minded. But he generally tries to make his points, albeit with the occasional sarcastic comment about those who disagree. And some of his arguments are actually quite sound. There are far worse who show up here from time to time.
"I don't see how it's close-minded to disagree with someone or to follow your principles."
It's not, but apparently they're offended by you disagreeing with them.
Personally I'm offended by homophobia, but that doesn't mean that I disagree with your right to express it. I simply reserve the right to point out that homophobes and other bigots are [censored by the Inquisition].
I think that this is unfair to me because I am always extremely right, so obvious right that anyone who disagrees with me is indisputably mentally deficient or, quite possible, morally deviant. I think that the only fair thing to do then is to inform these unfortunates of their condition, for their own good. If someone disagrees with me, isn't that really their problem? And I've had it up to here with sarcastic comments.
I think we're beyond elevating. Think of internet posts as a way for people to leech their bile. It's all part of the healing process.
It's better than people storing it up, painting their hair orange, and murdering innocent people. Whenever I read something crazy on the internet, I just think "If only someone had listened".
I fear you may have a problem then. The folks who comment here regularly seem (in my opinion anyway) to drift into sarcasm rather regularly. I think it's a way of keeping our sanity while engaged in the effort to actually expose ourselves to opinions which are, objectively, scattered all over the map.
The only way we could escape would be to lock down our minds to the point where nothing outside, neither opinion nor facts, could get in. Not a place most of us really want to go.
Um, he didn't just "express his personal opinion." He has given lots of money to groups trying to ban same-sex marriage where it's currently legal and keep such bans from being overturned.
While he has the right to do that, I have just as much right to say he's a homophobic bigot and encourage people not to buy his products.
But then what do I know? I'm just an "idiot democrat" (sic).
If I were the Head of the Chic marketing department I would force all of the stores to include a Buddy Christ with every purchase over $5 as reminder to everyone that everyone has a friend as long as they are straight.
What for? I can't imagine that wouldn't creep a lot of people out.
He died for our sins, and now we must consume his blood and flesh. The Chicken that is.
Huh. I think you've convinced me that I should stop purchasing ethically-raised chicken, and start petitioning for stricter humane-agriculture laws.
Or do both. Nobody should patronize a business that makes its money off immoral practices.
Overcharging me to pamper a chicken is immoral. Chicken, Food not Friend!
Several million years ago the chicken was a t-rex eating mammals. All mammals need to make sure it never happens again by eating as much chicken as they can.
I should amend my comment to say "Nobody should buy goods or services that were produced using immoral practices." PETA can eat McDonald's side salad.
I'm a CETA (Carnivore for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). Pamper my chickens before slitting their throats. Chicken, Food and Friend.
I'm not a naturalist though. I think one day we'll look back on the "organic" craze as a primitive superstition.
"Organic" frequently goes overboard. But the over-fertilizing and over-medicating that goes on in factory farms is overboard the other direction.
As a farm boy, I was real clear on the difference between "pets" (pampering OK) and food animals (pampering a waste of time and emotional energy).
Chickens, they're up to something. I eat only free range Chickens, because I want to trick them into valuing their existence.
Chickens don't believe in God. FACT
Chickens are terrible people. FACT
Chickens are conformists who taste like everything else. FACT
LOL!!! The last one really convinced me! Those chickens, ducks and frogs are plottin' on us! And the Geiko lizard... Can't be trusted!
I sort of wonder if anybody who has raised chickens isn't in favor of also torturing them first. Those are mean critters.
I'm a member of the other PETA - People who Enjoy Tasting Animals
The "organic" label to me means nothing about the food's origin (I don't care, unless it's obviously flown in from China) and a lot about the food's quality. I mean, have you seen the color of an organic egg yolk versus a non-organic one? They must be doing something right, 'cause the regular eggs don't make good eggnog.
The organic craze basically gave me a premium product that I can buy occasionally. If it gave worse stuff it would be worse than useless.
Serious Eats did a taste test. Pasture-raised chickens have brighter yolks due to their diet but there was absolutely no difference in taste. Organic advocacy groups are very careful not to make any claims about superior taste or nutrition because it's simply not true.
Prepared organic foods do sometimes taste better (and sometimes worse) but it's due to the types of ingredients included (or excluded) and not the quality of the ingredients themselves.
I read that taste test. Unfortunately, it doesn't cover what happens if you leave a dozen egg yolks with a quart of whole milk and a half-gallon of booze in a bottle for a year. I've been doing that for years*, and the one year I did a side-by-side with organic and non-organic eggs, the taste difference was palpable. And since at the time my girlfriend and I were both scientists, we insisted on doing the test double-blind. Then again, what happens in a good nog is a function of yolk enzymes, which scrambling the eggs immediately after cracking doesn't cover. Whatever works, I guess.
It's not just taste, or even eggs that I'm referring to, though. The "organic" stuff clearly has a lower turnaround time between harvest and sale, since it lasts on average a few days longer in the fridge than the other stuff. I can definitely taste the difference between fresh and not-as-fresh arugula. The good stuff has a really burning aftertaste, and I've rarely seen it outside of organic or locavore outlets.
* Unrelated: buy decent rum if you're making eggnog. Bacardi dark rum gave it a pretty nasty metallic taste after aging.
Yeah no kidding. I volunteered at this school that kept a small farm garden, and a hen-house. The kids would go play with the Chickens at recess, and I was supposed to keep an eye on them. And every once in a while a Chicken would just go ballistic and eviscerate one of these little tikes. Constantly monitoring Chickens for any sign that they might be about to display their inherently deceitful, violent, child-hating natures left me with a deep grudge against Chickenkind. Honestly, you just shouldn't let kids and Chickens near each other. Each is bad enough on its own.
Ducks are worse... territorial little bastards
It might be helpful to define the moral scope of consumer participation. Obviously, contributing directly to the KKK would be immoral. I think most would agree that paying a klansman to fix your plumbing is morally permissible. What if the klansman plumber declared that all proceeds will go to the Klan? I would argue that's still morally permissible so long as you're hiring the guy to fix your plumbing and not because proceeds will go to the Klan. Now what if he says proceeds go to the Klan but you have to write the check to the Klan yourself? Maybe this is where we want to draw the line even though it's identical in effect to the previous scenario where the plumber writes the check to the Klan. Maybe we want to push the bounds further and permit this, effectively making the only immoral act contributing directly to immoral causes.
That brings me to the hypocrisy of the "I will defend your right to say it but..." crowd. We can ban the Klan. "No, they have the right to spew hate but we don't have to allow them access to a platform from which to say it." As the left is so wont to say on the issue of poverty, "What good is a right if you're denied the means to exercise it?" The right to spew hate is part and parcel of the ability to do so. I would have more respect for someone who just came out and said that anti-gay-marriage organizations should be denied the right to exist. I'm not sure if banning the Klan would have outweighing unintended consequences, but if not, I'm perfectly willing to say that the Klan should be banned.
On a related note, let's stop attacking politicians for accepting money from shady donors. I'm with Ron Paul. Every dollar he accepts from a neo-Nazi is one less dollar in the pocket of a neo-Nazi.
One more thing. Of course government should set the legal bounds for morally permissible business practices but that doesn't relieve consumers of moral responsibility. I hope you wouldn't buy chicken sandwiches from a business that employs slave labor even if it were legal.
Interesting thought experiment, but I think I would draw the line at the point where you know where the proceeds are going. If you know someone is funneling money into something morally reprehensible, you have an obligation to stop giving them money. To not do so is to say you don't really care about that issue so long as you're not actively making it worse. It's a fine position but nothing to aspire to.
Also I'm missing the hypocrisy. Are you saying free speech isn't speech unless you have a megaphone? I don't know how 'the left' frames its argument that you are clearly straw manning, but I'm missing the connection to poverty here. You certainly have the right to spew hate ... but if you do so I will not support you, nor will I invite you to my town, and I will fight you to the best of my ability. How is that hypocrisy?
The only reason shady donors give money to pols is that they feel giving one dollar to Ron Paul is more valuable to them than having a dollar in their pocket - shouldn't that make one feel uneasy?
It may be morally laudable to boycott businesses which contribute to immoral causes but I wouldn't consider it a moral obligation any more than volunteering to build houses in Zimbabwe is morally obligatory.
Free speech isn't free if you deny the speaker the normal means to speak. You don't have to invite them to your town but if your town allows free speech, prohibiting them from your town is effectively denying them the right to speak.
Shady donors may give money to pols for any number of reasons unrelated to the reason they're shady.
"I'm with Ron Paul. Every dollar he accepts from a neo-Nazi is one less dollar in the pocket of a neo-Nazi."
I don't get this at all. Let's suppose Nazism were an actually popular political belief. Why do I care about the dollar in the Nazi's pocket? What I care about is the Nazi attempting to buy political influence with his dollar (successfully or otherwise). I'd far rather he bought a hot tub for his deck or re-tiled his kitchen or something than have him try to buy political access with it.
It's not a guiding philosophy, it's a naked ruse to try to persuade people to stop asking awkward questions about some of his more exotic funding sources.
You're assuming it buys access. I've donated to political campaigns and got zero access.
No, I'm really not. I don't imagine for a second that Ron Paul is a secret fascist, or that he'd change his mind and become one. Let's abstract away from Ron Paul for a moment.
Why is neo-Nazi Y giving money to Politician X? Maybe he just wants him to win. Maybe Politician X is a Nazi. And that's simple enough. But now let's suppose that Politician X isn't a Nazi. X has said some fairly dubious things in the past about race and so forth, but nobody seriously thinks he's a Nazi. So why is Y giving him money? Seems to me there's two possibilities: a) he's stupid (never a possibility to discount with neo-Nazis!) or b) he's hoping for access, or a policy change, or whatever. Naturally, as the size of the donation increases, it will seem to people less like a) and more like b).
Which is why it's a fair-game news story when politicians receive campaign contributions from neo-Nazis. The fascists may be stupid, or they may be trying to buy access or change policies, and handwaving about what they may or may not do with the money if they hadn't given it away really doesn't cut the ice.
The simple truth is that Ron Paul's campaign needed cash, and he wasn't going to turn away donations. He should have pointed to his platform and said, "I need the money - it's not going to change my opinions, which I've held for decades." That would have been honest.
However, the other alternative, implying that I should be concerned about fascists keeping their money to themselves, makes no sense to me. Yeah, sure, they might be an arsenal and commit an atrocity, but they probably won't. I'm more concerned about corruption in politics than I am about the possibility of a fascist insurrection.
Cogently put. I would personally decline to hire a plumber if he announced that he was using his income to support the Klan. But I wouldn't consider it a moral obligation to do so. Merely my choice in expressing my opinion.
In other words, I may decline to patronize a company if I do not approve of their business practices, their moral stances, or for any other reason. But I don't feel it is morally obligatory for everone who agrees with me on an issue to take the same economic approach to expressing themselves.
Most likely a neo-Nazi would support Ron Paul because he has policies that they like and they want him to win or at least air his policies.
Bill Maher contributed $1M to Obama's campaign. You think he did that for access or believe he really believes in Obama's policies and wants Obama to win?
You must not be donating enough for the level of politician you want to talk to.
Just Google "campaign donations buy access" for plenty of examples. A recent one:
I'd far rather [the Nazi] bought a hot tub for his deck or re-tiled his kitchen or something
I don't know what it is, but somehow the image of a Nazi in a hot-tub is just hilarious. "Nazi in a hot-tub", sounds like a band name.
"prohibiting them from your town is effectively denying them the right to speak"
There was the famous ACLU case that successfully sued on behalf of Neo-Nazis for their right to demonstrate in a Chicago suburb. The lawyer, I believe, was Jewish. You're right to point out that the liberal politicians who tried to ban Chik-Fil-A are on the shakiest legal and moral ground possible.
Personally, my only fear is that if the city allowed the Klan to demonstrate, the Klan would need police protection from the inevitable counter-demonstration.
Or a Monty Python skit.
I too would prefer that political activity remain separate from commercial (and religious) activity. Intermingling threatens to defract and cloud market signals, reducing efficiency for both. But how is separation now possible when commercial institutions are explicitly given a voice on the political stage via the Citizens United decision? Commerce will now be evermore politicized and politics will be evermore commercialized, to the detriment of both. Chick Fil A is just the amuse bouche.
An insightful post, W.W.
It also seems to be an incredibly inefficient way of supporting your agenda. Anytime I handed a cup of fair-trade coffee to one of the bright-eyed liberal arts students at college, I thought "now, there is a price-insensitive consumer". Oh my! the mark-up we are charging you. If you care about the rainforest or random Colombians, then it makes sense to just give money to actual charities, rather than allow a business to charge you for the privilege. In the same way, I wonder why these devout geriatrics aren't just donating to these political causes themselves, rather than going through the rigamarole of having to use Chick-Fil-A as a middleman.
It's always worth remembering that idiotic insufferable self-righteousness is a bi-partisan pastime. In this time of partisan rancor, I think it's good to remember that we're all the same idiotic people.
"I'm going to define my morality and my personality around the products I buy!" - Every bumper and T-Shirt in America.
I appreciate your bipartisanship, but nonetheless I remain shameless in my one-sidedness. Wanting capitalism (and not world socialism) that does not crush people into poverty is a worthy goal even if it is a silly way to go about it. Wanting to crush the rights homosexuals is a very realistic (as evidenced by all the conservatives who just a decade ago fought for Texas's right to imprison gays) and horrible goal.
Was Justice Thomas one of those conservatives? He voted to allow Texas to imprison gays but wrote that it was a silly law that he would try to repeal if he were a Texas legislator.
Wanting to contribute to groups that want to keep marriage open to procreation or the opposite is not a boycott-worthy offense in my book. It's too remote to register as formal cooperation for me. Now, if Chick-fil-A actually discriminated against gay employees, I'd join in the boycott.
By casually mocking those who make any effort to make their purchases line up with their beliefs, I find you to be insufferably self-righteous too.
Feel free to shop at Adolf's Aryan House of Wine and Cheese before you golf at Augusta, but know that says something about you too, bubba.
Well, while it may have happened (and just not reported), other discrimination HAS happened...
From Forbes magazine...
"In one Houston case, a Muslim store manager was fired for not participating in a "group prayer to Jesus Christ at a company training program in 2000." "
The author of the story goes on to be amazed that the manager survived the difficult vetting process which prides itself on finding "moral" people (buy really means finding moral Christian people). Somehow an infidel snuck through the cracks!
I've been boycotting Chick-fil-A for years (although admittedly there aren't any anywhere near me) because of their religious bigotry, of which their anti-gay stance is part and parcel.
And one could make a case that they discriminate against workers who need money and may have a second job and need to work on Sundays. I'm sure the overwhelming majority of people who do work on Sundays in the US are Christians.
And I also imagine many of those Christians would eat at a Chick-fil-A on Sundays too. Chick-fil-A is definitely an outlier in the fast-food world in their über-Christian insistance on Sunday closing.
Hopefully now you have more reasons to boycott them.
That checks out morally for me, too. People can run their businesses according to whichever principles they prefer. There are 1,608 Chick-Fil-A franchisees that have no problem operating within Dan Cathy's preferences.
I don't necessarily agree with him, but it's none of my business if he tells a Christian newspaper he believes marriage is between one man and one woman. It's not as if Chick-Fil-A requires its franchisees to publicly advertise that belief in its stores.
How did this become a nationwide scandal to the point that Rahm Emanuel, the mayor of Chicago and former White House Chief of staff, would say "Chick-Fil-A's values are not America's values"?
Rather "Chick-Fil-A's values are not Chicago's values." It was Mayor Bloomberg who retorted, "Chick-Fil-A bashing is not what America stands for".
Bloomberg is constantly doing something I absolutely love followed by something I absolutely hate. Love this. But just wait. Next week, he'll try to ban butter.
Geroff ma BiGulp! Geroff! Geroff! Geroff!
Have you heard he's decided to force women to breast-feed? So seriously out of line, Mike. I think Bloomberg is starting to act like Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow.
Have you heard Bloomberg's latest speech...
A Last Tango in Paris reference?
Alas, we're beaten about the head-and-shoulders by these same newsies smothering Chick-fil-A with liberally applied goodness that economic power IS the basis of power, are we not? So, I'll do what little I can by exercising my economic power to stay away from these franchises. To be honest; I was already doing so because I long-ago knew about the cloth from which the Chick-fil-A board was cut. Yes, they're now rich but I'll just have to be happy with my air of superiority.
Ok, whatever. The reality is that we really believe that money talks and chicken^&*# walks. No political candidate on any slate I've seen is going to change that - at least not in this generation.
I'm on a diet. But if I weren't, I'd probably buy the odd chicken sandwich or biscuit (put honey on it!) from time to time without too much worry. Once Chik-fil-A makes their restaurants or hiring policies hostile to gays, I'll reconsider my stance. Of course, aside from the diet, I'd probably avoid eating in at Chik-fil-A for maybe a month to avoid sitting next to some self-righteous and shameless Christian with stones to throw.
"RETURNING today to political news after a couple weeks spent moving house from Iowa City to Houston..."
You're the first person I've ever heard of who moved to Houston willingly.
Everyone else I know did it unwillingly, mostly for a job, and always said -
"Once this job is over, I'm moving my a$$ right back to [name your town]".
Maybe Will was moving for the job as well. Or his wife's (if any) job.
Hey, better Houston than Dallas, after all.
This is true. But you know, there's always Fort Worth or Austin.
Maybe an MFA program at U of Houston?
My recollection is that San Antonio is only about 2.5 hours away from Houston, and one heck of a step up.
And Austin, even better.
If you read his personal blog occasionally (often linked to from certain libertarian blogs) he explained that it's because of his wife's difficulty with living in Iowa, connected to a medical condition.
Remember Will, in Houston, the truck with the gun rack ALWAYS has right of way.
Amen to that. Houston is as close as you can get to purgatory on Earth. Unfortunately, I can get it if there's something medically down there not offered elsewhere in the US, but part of me wonders if the win Cities with the Mayo clinic might not have also provided adequate services without having to live in Houston. OOTO, one of the reasons I'm in Dallas is due to a very good MS clinic (if you have insurance for it) run by UT Southwest.
Sure, but Houston? Other US cities have medical facilities as well.
I mean, Houston?
As I recall, it was something related to the local environment, not to the local medical facilities. Also, note that W.W. is now pursuing further education in Houston. Come on, it's difficult enough to balance everybody's needs in a relationship when one of you is working, go easy on the guy.
Ah Beng, it might be time to increase a bit of fiber in your diet.
What I wrote was a joke toward Houston, and not on W.W.
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I'm more concerned about the conditions for the workers who work in the processing plants preparing the chicken and also the safety of the chicken. I am more concerned about what they do with their used oil, dump it or recycle it, if they use paper or styrofoam. I am more concerned about their corporate bullying of the man who used "Eat More Kale" on his tee shirts. Those would be the reasons I wouldn't frequent a Chik-fil-a if there was one in my area.
I do have a concern however about the idea that we shouldn't punish businesses if we don't agree with their philosophies though. I think consumer participation is important and may become more important if the right wing get their way in abolishing more unions. I think that profit focused corporate America will take the opportunity once the unions are gone to start whittling away at some of the workplace improvements that have been made by the unions. Should we continue to support blindly, actually like we do now with goods from third world countries, those industries that lower working conditions in this country merely to benefit the profit margin?
In addition, I think participating in change by voting is an excellent suggestion as long as
a. our voting rights are not curtailed as is the current trend
b. our votes are counted and reported honestly
c. the outcomes of the elections are honored and here is where I think the most damage is being done at this time. We have Michigan law makers replacing duly elected officials with emergency managers, ignoring the citizens input. These same law makers are fighting even giving the voters a say in this process by attempting to keep the issue off the ballot. Secondly President Obama won the last election, like it or not, however the Republicans in Congress have intentionally subverted the wishes of the people by refusing to participate in good faith with this administration. Many in Congress have deliberately ignored their own constituents to continue on the path determined by the Republican party and right wing organizations. They pander to the highest bidder, manipulate the facts, and intentionally sabotage any forward progress in the country to improve the economy.
Yet despite all of this you are suggesting that we should voice our interests and concerns only in the political and voting arena?
"I think that profit focused corporate America will take the opportunity once the unions are gone to start whittling away at some of the workplace improvements that have been made by the unions."
And you're most assuredly right.
Hell, they're already doing that.
First Whole Foods goes Tea Party Nation, now Chik-fila goes from quietly anti-gay to warpath anti-gay, sigh.
You can always survive on Ben & Jerry's.
Absolutely. That's ice cream.
Ben & Jerry's is quality ice cream but I don't want to buy the official ice cream of OWS. My preferred ice cream has been Haagen Dazs which most people don't know is an American company that picked a nonsense Danish-sounding name just to sound more sophisticated. But I just learned that Haagen Dazs was founded by hardcore Jewish-American Zionists. That's not a joke or a conspiracy theory. So I guess if we're real sticklers for corporate social responsibility, there is no quality ice cream for us free-market free-Palestine types. Hey, WW, there's an untapped market for libertarian ice cream!
And the acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation process was invented by Chaim Weizmann, who used the proceeds to help found Israel. Maybe 2% by mass of the polyethylene plastic in this country supports Israel!
There is a limit to the extent that we can consume at all if we're going to try and be completely ethical. Look a little deeper and any attempt to be a fully morally and politically informed consumer gets ridiculous.
And as for ice cream, since I'm no longer living in Cambridge and can't get my Toscii's fix, I'll have to recommend Coldstone's.
Interestingly (to me), I quit going to Chick-Fil-A a few years ago because they weren't open on Sunday. I came to this conclusion when I wanted some chicken strips on a Sunday and couldn't get 'em from Chick-Fil-A so I decided not to give them any more of my business.
The current hullaballoo is silly to me. Silly for a company to alienate a large portion of the US population, and silly for so many people to care who other people marry... what a silly reason to anger so many people.
I have a different take-- if the company wants to curtail its own profits for its beliefs, I find it acceptable. It is an act of self-sacrifice; a notion which somehow slips by millionaire pastors of megachurches or pious governors praying for rain and an end to broadened medical coverage for the poor.
Now if the company pursues discrimination in the commerce or employment of homosexuals, that's a horse of a different color. At this point, there's nothing to suggest that this is going on, but if it did, I might alter my opinion on the company because it impacts people outside the organization and employees within it who might otherwise be competent in their work.
Now for the big gray zone we're in-- the company makes a good enough profit, although closed on Sundays, and some of the recipients uses their share to fund anti-gay agitprop. Likewise, there are likely others in the organization using their wages to fund GLAAD or likewise. Now what-- hire accountants to track how shares in the company profits spend on each group? Best to let this sleeping dog lie in its sate of moral ambiguity.
Another excellent article W.W. It seems your recent move has not clouded your perspective one bit.
Seems to me that 'buying a little Christian traditionalism with your chicken' is fine as long as the degree of leaning this way is kept moderate, and doesn't become prevalent. Not every slope in this world is slippery, after all.
But it's not fair to say "it's bad business to sell to less people, so folks won't do it". On the contrary, niche marketing is *essential* for small players like Chick-fil-a, and any marketer will tell you that the perception of exclusivity is a powerful marketing tool.
A major purpose of well-designed law and regulation is to align the interests of individual(s) with the interests of society (or, at least, don't totally conflict). Excluding small minorities is terrible for society, but can be quite good for business if we let it, which is why there needs to be a limit to discriminatory behaviour by companies.
But if consumers want to discriminate against companies, I don't see the issue. Companies are not human. Their status as 'virtual persons' is granted only by consent of government. They don't have a race or gender. They're economic/social constructs that can be created and destroyed at the stroke of a pen. Their *employees* and *owners* have civil rights, but they themselves don't.
So we (do you mean government or wallet voters?) will allow moderate use of 1st amendment rights?
I'm just hoping the recent dust-up over Hebrew National hotdogs gets resolved.
Corporations are wont to become more political in their public images; fitting, since they continue to direct the course of American politics by way of their endless sums of money.
Most corporations have always had some degree of what you call "CSR" -- however, it's been under the table. I expect corporations will become far more outspoken with their "CSR" positions now that the American public is powerless to stop them. (Thank you, Citizens United!)
The effect of Dan Cathy's "more open" expression of his personal ethic is thus picked up in the clamor of conservative voices, resulting in further support to the anti-gay marriage movement.
How is it that we've come to a point as a country where a handful of corporate mouthpieces have the ability to not only define, but to directly alter, American social policy and government, by merely lending their support to the idee du jour?
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Sep 04, 2012, 09:50 PM | ||
Designers Set Sail, Turning to Wind to Help Power Cargo Ships
Saw this article last week in the NY Times.
Related sites: http://www.earthtechling.com/2012/05...big-fuel-saver http://www.b9energy.com/B9Shipping/t...S/Default.aspx http://www.skysails.info |
Sep 04, 2012, 11:50 PM | |||
In 2005 Toyota asked a German company to design a "green" ship to transport the
Toyota Prius across the oceans. The result was the ORCELLE. http://www.2wglobal.com/www/environm...ship/index.jsp http://www.2wglobal.com/www/pdf/Green_Flagship.pdf Wind, wave, solar, and hydrogen fuel cell. Some of the hydrogen was to be produced on board using the energy from the wind wayve and solar production. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=wAIAC4vU4lM At this point I think the farthest this concept has been realized is the solar hybrids. The Emerald Ace, Toyota Auriga Leader and the Nissan Nichio Maru http://www.greenlaunches.com/alterna...r-panels-2.php
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Sep 05, 2012, 12:32 AM | |
Strange that no mention was raised on rotor ships which, though aren't 100% emission free, do offer another alternative to reduce dependence on bunker fuel.
http://www.rexresearch.com/flettner/flettner.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_ship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_Ship http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosail Speaking of Popular Science, you'll find a number of articles going back to 1925 on the subject. http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~shs/Climate...can.htm#psm225 |
Sep 05, 2012, 03:37 PM | ||||
Top Gear UK gathered all this info cause they hate it, lol I loved the BMW M3 versus Prius; The Prius driven flat out, with the 400hp bimmer trailing leisurely just to keep up.
Bimmer got better MPG, Ha. I had the displeasure of renting a Yaris, which I think its the Priuses' combustion only relative. What a horrid vehicle. Gave me the creeps driving it. |
Sep 05, 2012, 09:39 PM | |
You would be surprised at the amount of production that has been moving back to American shores (that includes NAFTA countries & South America) since costs started rising steeply in China over the past several years but keep in mind its much, much more than simply labor vs. shipping costs that dictates what is made in the USA.
As Steve Jobs so aptly reminded us in early 2011 when he replied to the President's question about bringing manufacturing back to America, some categories won't ever be coming back & that certainly doesn't apply exclusively to Apple. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/bu...le-class.html? Of course, trade is a two-way street so don't forget China, among a few other developing countries, love buying American products so am sure we'll still be seeing the need for alternatively powered cargo ships. |
Sep 06, 2012, 01:13 AM | |
A Prius
If you look at the gas mileage of a Prius, they get better gas mileage in the city, than they do on the hwy. Reason for this is..... the batteries are used mostly in the city with the gas motor just used to supply top up of the batteries. On the hwy, the engine is running and reving at it's max all the time to produce electicity for the motor.
engine runs on gas motor uses electricity |
Sep 06, 2012, 01:24 AM | |
Why do you think this is happening now - soon it will be to expensive to move all those Wally world consumer goods to this country by sea due to oil prices. Ergo the renewed interest in eco-power, except that in this context, there is no one to charge you for using the wind to keep from having to outsource all those Chinese and Vietnamese jobs back to the debt-peasants of the US.
Sep 06, 2012, 02:38 AM | |
"The next step, she said, is to seek financing for a full-size ship to demonstrate the technology. It would cost $45 million and take three years to build." Yeah, there will be companies just lined up waiting to get in on that deal. The answer is to ignore this greenhouse emission nonsense and refuse to align with their silly treaties. Let those preaching this swill foot the bills, and see how long the chorus lingers. Does anyone remember the N/S Savannah? She was also going to show the way to reducing fuel costs. Lack of cargo capacity and crew costs (unions) killed that quickly. These wind ships will go the same way. Just wait till one of those huge masts accidentally snags an albatross. There will be a world wide clamor to scrap every one. |
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