Workers of the world unite

No, I'm not a marxist.

I do, however, believe that there will be a small rebellion in the service based economy we have in the US right now. Bear with me as I explain:

The 40 hour work week, once mandated by law, has long since passed us by. With the emergence of the service economy, workers are being asked to work more and more for less and less benefits - and by benefits I mean not only quality health care and retirement plans, but raises and salaries as well.

Add on top of this the work cell phones, the blackberries, accessing your work e-mail from home, laptops... It's hard to break the leash, and many find themselves working at home instead of spending time with their family or, god forbid, having some time to themselves.

I'm pretty confident that someday, down the road, there will be a backlash. For now, though, I offer a solution... Optional Fridays. before I get killed for this, let me explain.

Most Fridays are already casual. Let's now encourage the work from home aspect for those days, so it can be truly casual. Sure, many people will take advantage of this to start, but after a few months of it, you'll see people filter in throughout the day to get stuff doen and then go home... with no problems from their superiors. I honeslty bet productivity would increase because people would have less incentive to sit at their desk and do nothing. Get that project finished? Have a three day weekend.

Sounds good to me.

Welcome to the Dark Side

The Boston Red Sox and their fans have just officially come over to the dark side. Life as an empire begins today.

With Tough out for injured Garciaparra by Bob Ryan in today's Boston Globe the Sawx have joined the ranks of the Evil Empire they so depised. One of the most celebrated Sawx columnists takes and unsubstantiated shot at a former pillar of the team, and in doing so shows the true colors of Sawx Fans everywhere.

I cannot wait to hear all the Sox "fans" use this as justification for dumping their favorite star for replacement talent when he could have been just as clutch, if not more so, that Cabrera down the stretch last year.

On behalf of the Yanks, welcome to the club. The anything for a ring club. Watch as all of baseball now depises you, too.

Nationals Pride

OK, I know, I had a post with this title before.

The reason I bring this up again is that the site is done! Yes, ladies and gents, you can go to Nationals Pride and check out content all about your Washington Nationals. I know, most of you are fans of other teams, but do me the favor - go to the site, click some links, read some content, post in the message board. Tell me how bad my picture looks, even. It's updated every day, and I'll be adding my baseball blog thoughts there, not here, so look for this to make a more political turn... well, maybe not, but at least it would be less Baseball.

So what are you waiting for? Click it! Nationals Pride.com

Time change

I just want to go on the record, again, about being anti-the time change. I mean, we all love more sunlight, of course, but this change screws me up for a few days.

That is, screws me up more than I already am.