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Apple store employee wants to form a union (Poornima Gupta, Huffington Post)
It will be interesting to see how the Apple executive types handle this development. Heh.

Death-With-Dignity movement deserved better than Jack Kevorkian (Betty Rollin, LA Times)
Sure Dr. Death was a show-off and an exhibitionist. But he put his money where his ass was too. By all accounts he was sincere about his beliefs and work. He endured multiple arrests and trials and finally an eight year stint in prison too. So give him some credit.

Dr. Death Dies

I wonder, reading of his death, if Kevorkian would have had the same impact on American society and law if he'd done the same sort of stuff in a more socially liberal place like Seattle or Boston? What really brought him to fame was the behind-the-scenes showmanship of the politically ambitious ambulance chaser Geoffrey Fieger who promptly dropped Kevorkian once he decided to run for governor in 1998. Kevorkian's ideas about planned death deserved serious consideration and it was quite brave of him to act on them too. They cost him a nine year stretch in prison later in life so I can't say he didn't put his money where his mouth was either.