Monthly Archives: October 2003

Wal-Mart Illegals

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Surely no one is really surprised by this:

Federal officials are sweeping Wal-Mart stores across the United States as part of an effort to arrest some 300 illegal workers by Thursday evening…..
Officials say investigators are concerned about a pattern of Wal-Mart using contractors who employ illegal aliens and that Wal-Mart has, in fact, continued to use contractors who have been convicted of hiring aliens in the past.

Or that Wal-Mart would try to hide behind the ‘contractor’s employees’ argument:

“They arrested a number of members of the floor cleaning crews.” Williams emphasized the workers are employed by contractors, saying, “they’re not Wal-Mart associates.”

If Wal-Mart really did not know then there are some management types who need to be fired for failure to do due diligence in hiring the contractors.

Link Spam Alert

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Both Jaquandor at Byzantium’s Shores and Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light report a new p*rn scam targeted at blogs.
This is what the scammers have done as described by Teresa:

The other thing this supposed weblog has is a titanic blogroll some 3,500 entries long. It�s an utterly indiscriminate list. It links to conservative religious websites, and to weblogs in languages that don�t use the Roman alphabet and haven�t been transliterated, and to random pages on About.com, and to the official website of the California Sociological Association, to name but a few.
It looks like the proprietors harvested the addresses of everything that looked like a weblog and tossed them into their list, not even pausing to weed out the false positives. The links go out, the webloggers learn via Technorati or some comparable site that they�ve been linked to, and they go to have a look.

I won’t give the scammers a link or name their site. Just be aware that if you have a new linking site that you don’t recognize and that has a title that suggests you might get to read about someone’s carnal adventures then you will get some apparently poorly done versions of that and a whole bunch of p*rn advertising.

Late Night Reading

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A Rawlsian response to home schooling and…read the comments (even if Will Baude doesn’t like comments). If you are not already doing so you should read Crooked Timber every day…whether you are left, right or orthogonal.
Barbara Karkabi interviews Molly Ivins for the Houston Chronicle. Via Mad Kane.
This review of Mystic River presents a different picture than the one linked in last night’s Late Night Reading.
George Lakoff will help you understand the framing of ideas in political discourse. Useful to all persuasions. Via David Isenberg who was talking about the telecom industry.
Good Night!