If you already know about the Employee Free Choice Act and support it click here to contact your congresspeople and ask them to support it.

So, I don’t post necessarily overt political things as blogs that often (ok, yes I do), but I don’t often ask you to take action, which maybe I should more often. Anyway. The Employee Free Choice Act is something that is close to me, for a variety of reasons. 1) I worked for the Service Employees International Union during the election helping defeat ludicrous anti-worker initiatives in Colorado and electing Barack Obama and, more importantly, 2) I am a low-wage retail worker who cannot afford the benefits “provided” by my employer, I do not get paid sick days, I live from paycheck to paycheck (sometimes less), and I wish there were a way for me to improve these things in my workplace. The fact is, speaking out about things in the workplace is dangerous for me, and whenever I do it, I run the risk of getting fired or punished by getting my hours cut, getting written up, or being treated poorly/ignored. If my co-workers and I were able to join a union and bargain with our management for better wages, benefits, and policies, we would all be happier in our jobs, and my workplace would benefit from happier employees who felt like they were valued.

Speaking out, or asking for better treatment is especially hard in an ecomony like ours because you know that many people would love to have your job and you don’t want to feel ungrateful that you have not been let go.

Of course, this is not to say I don’t enjoy my job. I absolutely love what I get to do every day even if it is tiring and sometimes stressful. But I think my work is worth more than my wage. I feel that I deserve good, affordable health care because of all the hard work I put in (and money I make for my bosses and the company. In fact, today, I had one individual sale that was over $600, which is a little less than what my paycheck for TWO WEEKS usually equals). I don’t think it’s weird to like your job and wish it could be improved at the same time. And I’m certain most of my fellow workers feel the same way as I do.

The Employee Free Choice Act, which was introduced in both the house and senate yesterday would make it easier for me and my co-workers, if we chose to, to form a union, and would make it less likely that we would get fired or “punished” for wanting one. It would allow our voices to be listened to, and allow us to assert that our work is worth a certain amount, which is a right that has slowly been eroded by selfish business interests who have the money to influence elected officials.

And already, these same interests are at it again, pouring millions of dolllars of money their workers earned for them into deceptive ads and lobbying against EFCA. They pretend like it will get rid of a secret ballot elections (which it won’t), or that it will force workers to join the union (which is illegal, and it won’t), and this just pisses me off.

Anyway, the link above talks a little about EFCA, and this link is SEIU’s “Five things you should know about employee free choice”. There’s also SEIU’s EFCA website, which explains a little bit more, and here’s the link (from there) to contact your congressperson and ask them to support EFCA. If you’re a working person, or someone who cares about me and my well-being who is better off, I encourage you to take action and ask your congresspeople to support EFCA so that workers are valued and make what they are worth.

Here’s a vid of Rachel Maddow talking about EFCA, to give y’all some perspective.

And, you know, pass it on.

The Juice Box

Until I have focus and more cleverness.  That’s right.  Sorry?  Hopefully I’ll actually be here soon.

Here’s my thing, y’all.

I have a job.  It pays shit, I have no insurance (not because it’s not offered, but because it costs $60 a paycheck, which would leave me no money for, you know, food), it often involves pretty disgusting things including getting hit on by creepy old men (and young men), or getting groped by them (only like once or twice in almost two years, though!), or having to touch their videos that have lube on them from when they jacked off to them.

But there are awesome things too, like getting to become super educated on certain aspects of sexual pleasure and freedom and helping to educate others so that they can have good sex (with themselves or others).  And my co-workers are pretty fun, and I get to say things like “fucked in the pooper” on a regular basis, as my job.

But, seeing as I’ve only been back for going-on-four weeks, I’ve come home at least five nights pissed as hell at one of my superiors.  I won’t get into specifics here, because that is going to come tomorrow when I talk to my manager, but there are certain things I expect as a human being, no matter what my job is.

I don’t need to be talked to in a condescending manner, I don’t need to be addressed passive aggressively, I don’t need you to lie to my face about asking me to go on break and then telling me it was “just a misunderstanding” and “you don’t need my attitude”.  The thing is, I give attitude only when I get it first, whether through disrespect, rudeness, or both, and this douche is like the leader of douche-ville.

So, yes, I think everyone deserves to be respected in their workplace, even if they’re not a manager (and, btw, all the managers and assistant managers are men, which irritates me, because they seem to ask them women to clean a whole lot more and shit).

So, that’s my rant. meh.

And finally, your long awaited (3 days) review of Who’s Nailin Paylin? has arrived.

As the title of the movie indicates, the question that is to be answered throughout the viewing of this pornographic production by Hustler is “who is nailing (a parody) Sarah Palin?”.  And indeed, I suppose you find out the answer to this question because by the end Sarah Palin has banged quite a few people and even her husband gets in on the action (but not with her).

Either way, I was pretty disappointed with the movie overall.  Hustler could have done a good job with the political commentary, and there were some really spot on critiques of things Sarah Palin says and believes, but the bad sex scenes and gay jokes made it non-enjoyable.

However, the first scene was classic as it involved your classic-porno-premise; car breaking down and someone needing to call a tow truck, except substitute the car with a Russian tank and calling a tow truck with calling the Kremlin.  That was totally awesome and hilarious, although the three-some that ensued with Palin and two Russians was fairly boring.

There then involved a supposed political aide teaching Palin some new vocabulary words, which included absolutely, to which Sarah Palin would say ‘you, betcha’ which I guess was some commentary on her speaking patterns, but since they didn’t have to porn actress try the accent, it was kinda stupid.  But then I realized in order to understand this porn, you would have to have a basic knowledge of Sarah Palin’s craziness, which I’m not sure if most consumers of porn would have…or most consumers of porn who would want to rent a Sarah Palin porn.  Although, maybe this was created more for consumers like me who want some parody porn (which reminds me that you all should rent Space Nuts if you ever get the chance).

Anyway, after our vocabulary lesson, we have Todd Palin cheating on Sarah with the political vocabulary chick and then we have Sarah Palin cheating on Todd with his snowmobile company co-worker, which I guess was clever, but I was happy that they portrayed the cheating as happening on both Palin’s parts, rather than just Todd Palin’s.  Score one point for gender equity, I guess.

Then we went back in the day to Sarah Palin at I-da-ho University, where her biology teacher was teaching them that dinosaurs don’t exist and the world is only 6,000 years old, which was actually hilarious, especially considering the teacher was played by Evan Stone who is actually a pretty good comedic porn actor.  So, then the young Palin and teacher do it, and this sex scene was actually decently hot, so that was a plus.

Then Sarah had to give her press conference about alleged cheating, which imitated that one response she had to Katie Couric’s question that Tina Fey totally nailed, which, again, was clever.  You find out at the end of this press conference that Hillary Clinton was under the podium the whole time performing oral sex on her, at which point they go back behind the press conference curtain and proceed to get it on and the Condoleezza Rice comes in and gets in on the actions.  It’s important to note that Hustler just decided to find a Black woman for the Condi part despite trying to find actresses who actually looked like the other white female and male characters based on real people, which is just stupid and is an immense display of racism, because apparently you have to find white folks who look similarly to the white folks they’re based on in terms of facial features, hair, and clothing, but then can just find someone who’s Black to fill Condi’s part because all Black people look the same.

At some point there were a few jokes against gay men, which isn’t surprising because Hustler did it and they’re known for trying to push that all forms of speech should be accepted and mainstream in pornography, especially homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist and ableist shit, so meh.

Also, there were some interludes with a mock Bill O’reilly, but they obviously weren’t that remarkable because I don’t really remember them.

Although, I do feel this movie won’t appeal to the folks who might want to rent it, conservative men who have a boner for Sarah Palin because it basically made her look like a total dipshit (which she was).

So, there you have it, kids!  Comment away (all one of you)

yes, that’s correct, i rented Hustler’s “Who’s Nailin’ Paylin” tonight because I want to see if the porn actress is a convincing Sarah Palin (doubt it) and how horrible it is.  The thing is, Larry Flynt (owner of Hustler) is an outspoken critic of the Bush Administration and their war on porn (and even sex ed for that matter), so maybe I’ll be surprised by the level of political commentary, but considering this is a porn, which means its purpose it to titilate, I’m pretty sure I’m going to be disappointed.

I am going to give a review of it up here, though, so you can all know how awesome or not it was.  Ooh!  I just looked on the Internet Adult Film Database and notice that Nina Hartley is also in it, which is cool.  Also, Jada Fire (one of my more favorite porn stars) is supposed to be Condoleezza Rice, which is odd because she’s super hot and looks nothing like Condi.  AH well.

I want to know the answer; who is nailin paylin?

Seeing as I have nothing substantive to post here yet, I thought I would leave you with this photo (non-photoshopped) of George W. Bush with folks all doing the “shocker”.  I have no thoughts to explain this, except maybe there is just something I’m missing because someone in this large group should be familiar with the shocker, or maybe it was a huge group joke on GWB?  Yeah.