kyburg | I'd like - oh, to be able to breathe normally again. Thanks.

So Arlen Specter had enough, did he? Again? HAY ARLEN, NEXT TIME GO GREEN.

We'll take you. And then maybe we'll have someone running the joint who can actually get paperwork filed on time. And pay bills. And...stuffs. (In the meantime, we solitary Greens get to perfect our facepalms. Oh yes, we do.)

Any of my knitty friends ever buy yarn made by a company in North Carolina called Tuscarora? I'd never heard of them, and I'm pretty sure they won't be happy about how I did.

In a completely done deal, the EEOC is suing them for 'subjecting an employee to sexual harassment and then retaliating against her for complaining about it.'

A Latina factory worker in North Carolina was brutally assaulted by the plant manager after she had earlier reported his sexual harassment to officials of the yarn company that employed her, according to a federal court complaint filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The complaint, part of a motion filed by the SPLC today, alleges that Tuscarora Yarns Inc. of Oakboro, N.C., failed to protect the woman, who speaks very little English, after she told superiors about unwelcome sexual advances, comments, innuendo and physical contact by the manager in 2007.

On Dec. 29, 2007, she left the factory in an ambulance following an assault by the manager.

UH, check the dates. The suit was filed on 3/30/09. That's how long it takes, guys. (Tip of the hat to

reannon - I would never known anything about it.) After leaving your job in an ambulance. Keerist.

Does this mean I shouldn't be taking Rush so seriously?

Tapped

motorbike yesterday - this issue NEEDS shirts like nobody's business. And you know what? I don't plan to store-sell. I'm sure the Twitter underground will do nicely. Who doesn't have a Twitter account? Me. Who has Twitter accounts? All y'all. Will let you know the particulars as soon as we get them together. (Oh and BTW? Locals - you want to make some noise, please? A little louder - nobody can HEAR YOU.)