http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2007/11/03/who%e2%80%99s-afraid-of-a-writers-strike/ Random rants and curious explanation. Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:35:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2007/11/03/who%e2%80%99s-afraid-of-a-writers-strike/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Al Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:40:48 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2007/11/03/who%e2%80%99s-afraid-of-a-writers-strike/#comment-428 You're right, Arthur. Scabs should be arriving by the busload, and striking writers should be slashing the bus tires and plopping potatoes into the tailpipes. Pinkerton men should be coming by barge. Roger Ayles should be burned in effigy, strike or no strike. Where is America's spunk, spittle, and pluck when the scabs are crossing the picket lines via e-mail and the strikers all have liberal arts degrees? We're all going soft, which raises another question: are all those Cialis commercials going to be financed to appear on re-runs? You’re right, Arthur. Scabs should be arriving by the busload, and striking writers should be slashing the bus tires and plopping potatoes into the tailpipes. Pinkerton men should be coming by barge. Roger Ayles should be burned in effigy, strike or no strike. Where is America’s spunk, spittle, and pluck when the scabs are crossing the picket lines via e-mail and the strikers all have liberal arts degrees? We’re all going soft, which raises another question: are all those Cialis commercials going to be financed to appear on re-runs?

]]> http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2007/11/03/who%e2%80%99s-afraid-of-a-writers-strike/comment-page-1/#comment-427 Arthur2 Tue, 06 Nov 2007 23:07:11 +0000 http://horse-you-rode-in-on.com/2007/11/03/who%e2%80%99s-afraid-of-a-writers-strike/#comment-427 Fine points, all, and Horse should certainly be commended for it's hard-hooved stand on ethics. However, it misses the point that it's fairly confusing to hear that when writers go on strike there aren't battalions of hungry freelancers knocking the strikers over like bowling pins to get to paying work. What ever happened to picking scabs (so to speak)? Going on strike just isn't what it used to be. Fine points, all, and Horse should certainly be commended for it’s hard-hooved stand on ethics.
However, it misses the point that it’s fairly confusing to hear that when writers go on strike there aren’t battalions of hungry freelancers knocking the strikers over like bowling pins to get to paying work. What ever happened to picking scabs (so to speak)? Going on strike just isn’t what it used to be.

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