Everyone's A Traitor Around Here

Readers debate whether MEA's push to recall lawmakers is a show of democracy or a bullying tactic

Definitely bullying. Why, I've known canvassers to buttonhole strangers and threaten to stab them in the eye if they didn't sign the petition. One question: if standing around with a clipboard constitutes giving aid and comfort to the enemy, who exactly is the enemy? If FairVoice won't explain who or what, doesn't that make him an accessory to treason?

The only thing worse that circulating a petition is circulating a petition in wartime. javamama might as well have flown out to Afghanistan just to stab a bunch of soldiers in the eye.

Vampires? Like Literally, With Fangs?

Pontiac emergency financial manager to cancel union contract for police dispatchers

Ah, the return of the Underpants Gnome Theory of American Prosperity!

1. Eliminate workplace safety standards, wage & hour laws, etc.
2. ...
3. Everybody gets a car!

Also, how could you bring yourself to kill something this cute?

Apparently teachers are worth less than Taco Bell employees, whose starting salary is $1.25 above minimum wage. They are, however, worth more than the Indonesian who stitched BeckIsAHero's t-shirt.

Expect the Unexpected

13-year-old boy assaults grandmother in Flint

It takes a special kind of dedicated union-basher to draw an instant connection not to a lack of morals or parents, but to the wicked influence of public schools. You know what they say in the teachers' lounge: never attend a department meeting without a weapon. And watch out for those new hires. They'll cut a bitch without even thinking twice.

We Will Solve Your Budget Woes

Grand Rapids' biggest labor union again rejects city contract offer

The most efficacious solution to any dispute with a union is the unilateral dissolution of that union. I'm sure the temps will pick up the intricacies of the city zoning and planning process right away.

The Grand Rapids Employees Independent Union includes librarians, accountants, engineers, and lawyers, all proverbial lunkheads. Why, they wouldn't even notice if you violated their civil rights in the name of saving a buck!