Area man leaves work early, "on principle" man says

Some three dozen workers at a telemarketing call center in Indiana walked off the job rather than read an incendiary McCain campaign script attacking Barack Obama, according to two workers at the center and one of their parents. | TPM |

I am sure that some of these people will suffer some degree of financial pain as a result. And so I don't want to diminish what they chose to do.

But amongst the writers on this blog, I know that several of us here have worked one (or many more) phone jobs, and I think they would agree with my personal experience: Most days on a telemarketing job, one is looking for any excuse to quit.

Hey, there was a presidential debate this morning

Sunday morning seems a strange time for a republican presidential debate. Aren't the people to which they are pandering all in church?

Anyway, I'm blogging from my phone, so I'll be brief. But what struck me more than anything else was this: The "top tier" candidates in this field are substantially worse at the format than the "fringe" candidates. Indeed, even Duncan Hunter comes off as more serious than Mitt or Rudy. Is this Bush's legacy for republican politics?

P.S.: Ron Paul is awesome.