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Bush code

Well, it worked for awhile with Iraq -- "Iraq! Terrorists! Iraq!" And people believed the two must be associated, or why would he keep saying it... Similarly: "Technology! No crisis! Technology!"On SOTU desultory liveblogging posted 1 year, 10 months ago 1 Response

Mackey's politics

For a heaping helping of Mackey's 'libertarianism', you can look at his blog at http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/blogs/jm/.

His sentiments do seem a little off here, as far as unionization. Libertarians (and Mackey says he's one) ought to support any mechanism by which individual employees can use their own power to make changes, rather than relying on gov't regulation of wages, hours, workplace, and so on. At least, I would think this would be a natural libertarian position.

Objectivism is a whole different beast -- although Rand should have understood this point, she favored individual valuation and bargaining over pretty much any form of consolidated bargaining. But, that's the difference between ethics (which may favor individuals bargaining independently based on their own worth) and politics (which is merely about what kinds of interaction are permissible. Sometimes Objectivists lose sight of this distinction, even though Rand grudingly admits that any form of cooperative action is technically allowed, as long as it's wholly voluntary.On Whole Foods CEO secretly hearts Wal-Mart posted 2 years, 4 months ago 4 Responses