Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

American History and Black History can not be separated.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

We won’t go back.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Joe Biden can go out like FDR, not by dying in office, but by crushing the fascists.

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I’m at my office getting in a little writing on the last quiet day on campus…and I got my juices going with this one, a glorious anthem of my youth:

The bass player’s mustache is a thing of beauty and a dead rat joy forever. Lou Reed is impossibly young and imperviously immaculate.

Oh — and while it makes sense on Labor Day to remember that “… other people they have to work” — I hope you don’t.

Instead, it’s my wish for everyone reading this that they enjoy the message of this most improbable duet:

Propose your own musical accompaniments to the day (and the work week to come) in the comments.

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  1. 1.

    Aimai

    Not working. Visiting my 97 year old neighbor, planning a birthday party for my 82 year old mother, and going to see a movie.

  4. 4.

    John

    Working hard. You couldn’t even tell it was a holiday where I work. Same as every other day. And no, there’s no holiday pay. There’s never any holiday pay.

  5. 5.

    Major Major Major Major

    Had a seizure last night, no damage other than a broken foot so far. Those things are… Weird.

    Anyway the hospital staff seems to have some great folks in today. Perhaps expecting some intoxication.

  6. 6.

    Not Adding Much to the Community

    I’m at work, myself. We have five paid holidays, Labor Day is conspicuously not one of them. But we get Memorial Day and Veteran’s Day paid, which is fitting, as soldiers are more important than workers in this society.

  7. 7.

    srv

    Tom, all those children died in the coal mines so you could have today off. Get with the program.

    Last saw Lou at the Town Hall around 2008, quite a treat.

  9. 9.

    gogol's wife

    In honor of my colleagues whose first day of school was today (I’m on sabbatical), I’ve been working hard, writing, since 9:30 this morning. Now I can listen to the inane laughter of my neighbors in their above-ground pool. Keeping the A/C on and the windows shut.

    The good thing about September is that the Friday-night pre-Code festival runs all this month on TCM!

  14. 14.

    skerry

    For another version of “Perfect Day”, here’s Susan Boyle’s cover. The video was directed/produced by Lou Reed.

    “I wanted to create a beautiful and intimate piece shot in Susan’s native Scotland and she quickly agreed,” Reed told The Sunday Mail.

    I like her cover better than Duran Duran’s.

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    @efgoldman:

    Here in California, they tried to take away our “overtime after 8 hours” rule, but there was such an outcry that they had to give it back again. So in CA, unless you specifically have a four-day, 10-hour schedule, hourly employees must be paid OT after 8 hours of work even if they don’t have 40 hours for the week.

  19. 19.

    moderateindy

    Favorite Labor Day song ever, Billy Bragg ……………. If only our country as a whole understood the integral part that unions play in improving incomes, and working conditions for everyone that “works” for a living.
    “Money speaks for money,
    the devil for his own,
    who comes to speak for the flesh and the bone…….
    http://youtu.be/4CkFPyH8v1c

  21. 21.

    Dave C

    So, a Facebook friend of mine posted a link (See here) to a story claiming that one of the lead developers of the HPV vaccine is now claiming that it is not effective and potentially dangerous. I know nothing about the source, but I’m highly skeptical of the claim. Cursory googling has not shown me much about this story. Anybody know anything about this?

  22. 22.

    elmo

    @Mnemosyne:
    Ironically, not if you’re organized and a different OT rule is negotiated in your CBA. All our CA employees are on the OT after 40 rule, because that’s what is in their CAN.

  23. 23.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Dave C: My guess is fearmongering from the purported left. That’s a group with lots of vaccine efficacy denialism and danger.danger shouting. Some rebuttal here.

  24. 24.

    burnspbesq

    Just another Monday in the UK. Going through some prime bureaucratic madness trying to get the kid a local bank account and a local SIM card for his phone.

    On a completely different note, I wasn’t aware of what a dirty piece of business the search for a new president for FSU had turned into until I read this a bit ago (h/t tto esteemed commenter Jim3k at Duke Basketball Report). Just. Wow.

    http://contextflorida.com/adam-weinstein-presidential-search-latest-battle-free-market-lobbyists-trying-transform-fsu/

  25. 25.

    Belafon

    @Dave C: A quick lookup of progressive radio network led me to Gary Null, whose wikipedia page says:

    Gary Michael Null is an American talk radio host and author who advocates for alternative medicine and naturopathy and who produces a line of dietary supplements.
    His views on health and nutrition are at odds with scientific consensus; Stephen Barrett, co-founder of the National Council Against Health Fraud, described Null as “one of the nation’s leading promoters of dubious treatment for serious disease”.

    He denies HIV causes AIDS.

  27. 27.

    Jimmi the Grey

    As I am a cook at a breakfast place in Salem OR and had to go 6hrs strait nonstop may I humbley suggest Breakfast in America?

  31. 31.

    greenergood

    I never knew about Lou Reed and Sweet Jane till years later – in the late 1970s I was a fan of ‘new’ Irish bands like De Danaan and the Bothy Band, but we had a local band in our western NY State college town – they wrapped themselves (literally) in tinfoil and covered Sweet Jane and Perfect Day and Waiting for my Man’ and I thought they were amazing but just not on my musical planet then. Never knew why Labor Day was called Labor Day then. It takes turning into a grown-up for some of us to understand what’s going on in the world, while for some of us turning into a grown-up means shutting out the rest of the world and making things worse.

  32. 32.

    J R in WV

    And,

    did everyone already know that great jazz singer Norah Jones is the daughter of Ravi Shankar!? Just one of the best Indian sitar players ever, passed his musical ability to his daughter, who is amazing. Amazing!

    I saw master Shankar many years ago, in the early 1970s, with a drummer who was just as amazing. Norah Jones is an amazing talent as well. She can sing anything, in any style, and make it as comfortable as is she had been doing it all her life.

  35. 35.

    Amir Khalid

    @J R in WV:
    You might be interested in checking out Norah’s half-sister, Anoushka Shankar, herself an accomplished sitarist who has recorded with Sting.

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