Happy Labor Day. If you have a paid holiday today, thank the unions.
This week’s featured article is titled “5 Lessons to Hold on to as Ferguson Fades into History”, though I’m still monkeying with the wording. Often it seems like the country learns something from a traumatic news story, but then it all goes away in a month or two. Let’s not do that this time.
In the weekly summary, Market Basket gave us a feel-good Labor Day story, Senator Gillibrand’s book has everybody talking about sexual harassment in the Senate, Burger King wants to have corporate taxes its way, Hillary Clinton’s Ferguson statement seems late and weak, and there really is feminist country & western.
I’m aiming to post the 5 Lessons article around ten EDT, and the summary by noon.
The Weekly Sift 
Comments
Well, I’m unconvinced that most black people will forget Ferguson, because, at its core, it speaks to white privilege, a term most white people hate . This was an interesting story http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/08/31/1325627/-Can-you-still-doubt-plight-of-black-men-with-police-irrespective-of-socio-economic-circumstances
I don’t think blacks were the people who needed to learn that lesson. But these last few weeks some whites came to understand too, and they could easily forget.