Bloggers’ Union? Wha…?

The first I heard of this bloggers’ union thing going around was at Fausta’s Blog and I thought she handled it pretty well, so I had no comments to make. I’ll admit that the reason I missed the whole discussion was because I’ve been frittering away my time at this job-thing I’ve got going here. Apparently, I missed alot – but back to the blog union thing.

So, there’s nothing really going on today, suddenly and I went back to see what the Hell this union thing is all about (not that I want to join a union – but because it’s the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard…well, since Sean Penn went for a ride with Hugo Chavez and peed along the road for the cameras). But anyway, I come across this thing from Machinist entitled “The Bloggers Union That Isn’t“;

Susie Madrak, proprietor of the blog Suburban Guerrilla and the AP’s main source for its story, is not calling for a labor union for bloggers…..What Madrak is organizing, instead, is very different: a kind of grass-roots insurance pool to pay for health emergencies of progressive bloggers — people without whom, she says, Democrats would not enjoy the political success they’re now seeing.

Well, that makes sense. Being “Progressive” means you expect someone else to do all of the things you don’t want to do, and pay your way, too. But the article takes an odd turn;

Madrak’s fight was inspired by the death last month of Jim Capozzola, one of the founders of lefty blog the Rittenhouse Review. Madrak, who calls Capozzola her “fairy blogfather,” argues that if he’d been a Republican, Capozzola would be alive today. “He would have been in a well-paid think tank job, living the high life (He did, after all, have a masters degree in foreign policy,)” she wrote recently in the Huffington Post. “Most importantly, he would have had health insurance for the past six years.”

Hey!

Where’s my high-paying think-tank job? Are all Republican bloggers supposed to get one first…or do we get it later? Is someone else going to pick up the whopping $12/month I spend on this blog? How come no one told me about this  – I went to the MilBloggers’ Conference and no one told me about it there.

Am I being treated like this because of my wishy-washy stand on immigration?

Maybe it’s because I oppose the death penalty. Look, guys, I’ll sell my principles down the river for one of those think tank jobs. Who do I contact?

But, look, I’m not joining a union – I already talk to too many people I don’t like.

Fausta had the best advice for these “Progressive” bloggers, though;

If you want medical insurance, talk to a lawyer, incorporate as a small business, talk to an insurance agent, and pay your own premiums, you wuss. If you’re not making enough money as a blogger to do this, get a job that does.

You can always join the Army, too – but it may cut into your blogging time. Ask Scott Beauchamps.

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