On Question 1, as for the fear that supermarkets can't control the purchase of controlled substances, I haven't heard that they've majorly failed on the sale of cigarettes. I absorbed too much French culture at an early age to find the thought of wine in the supermarket scary. Tangentially,
(Although I feel slightly traitorous, since the owner of Kappy's is a Lodge brother of mine.)
Thank you for saying this out loud, even parenthetically: I do still come across people who believe that Masons will support each other business-wise as a point of principle. Of course, as a mundane profane, I don't know, but from the Masons I do know I've come to doubt it.
On Question 2, I remember this practice did cause massive voter confusion on West Wing. Oh wait a minute, no, that was a deliberate put-on. I favor Question 2 exactly to the extent that the Big Parties put it down.
On Question 3, I was working at Harvard when the UAW tried to come in and be the union for the clerical workers - you could say "aggressively" if you didn't like them, or "assertively" if you did. It didn't work, though I believe they have since unionized on their own. So while I have no problem with in-home child-care providers unionizing (and I say that as a former client), the exact phrasing does give me an iffy feeling here.
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(Although I feel slightly traitorous, since the owner of Kappy's is a Lodge brother of mine.)
Thank you for saying this out loud, even parenthetically: I do still come across people who believe that Masons will support each other business-wise as a point of principle. Of course, as a
mundaneprofane, I don't know, but from the Masons I do know I've come to doubt it.On Question 2, I remember this practice did cause massive voter confusion on West Wing. Oh wait a minute, no, that was a deliberate put-on. I favor Question 2 exactly to the extent that the Big Parties put it down.
On Question 3, I was working at Harvard when the UAW tried to come in and be the union for the clerical workers - you could say "aggressively" if you didn't like them, or "assertively" if you did. It didn't work, though I believe they have since unionized on their own. So while I have no problem with in-home child-care providers unionizing (and I say that as a former client), the exact phrasing does give me an iffy feeling here.