Episode 193: KSD Lazy, Do Nothing Idlers

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Have you ever thought how weird it is that experts in labor—issuing pronouncements about how long shifts should be—never work those job shifts themselves? It's another argument supporting the title group in this Episode 193: KSD Lazy, Do Nothing Idlers.

In this episode, I read from: an anonymous 18th century pamphlet; Benjamin Hunnicutt's book, Kellogg's Six-Hour Day; and my computer's quickie dictionary.

I play: in honor of black history month, Martin Luther King expounding about the evils of "gentlemen of massive verbal persuasion," his quote backed by KMFDM's "Attak"; and I close today with Julie and Rolf and the Campfire Gang doing "Over the Rainbow".