California’s New $9.00 Minimum Wage in Historical Perspective

$9.00 per hour! Why when I was a kid walking to school up hill both ways in the snow we only made $0.23 per hour and an hour lasted ten times longer than it does now. Can you believe these whippersnappers wanting to get $9.00 per hour?

Or, how exactly does California’s newly passed $9.00 per hour minimum wage, the highest state minimum in the nation, compare in constant dollars to the minimum wage when your grandpappy was only knee high to a grasshopper? Let this handy chart explain it to you. Continue reading →

Crass Writer’s Workshop With Punch and Pie

Sorry for the delay gang.

Let’s get this started.

Welcome to the Crass Writer’s Workshop. We have these from time to time to help come up with story ideas and to set up those of you would like to take a shot at writing on the site. If you have any questions about WordPress, writing tips, or topics, this is the place to ask.

My lovely and talented co-host this evening will be Lucky Duck. She has been an editor at Crass since our launch so she is a great source of advice.

OK, let’s get started.

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Song Lyrics that Are Factually Incorrect

factsSometimes you’re sitting there singing along with that song you’ve had a million times and then you stop and say to yourself, “hey, wait a minute, that doesn’t make sense and is actually wrong.” Well those lyricists out there sometimes just jam words together, don’t actually know what they’re talking about or change reality to fit their rhymes.

Here are just a few songs that have lyrics that are factually incorrect. Continue reading →