We’re been observing that these striking Hollywood writers really leave us lacking for well-crafted slogans.

I mean, have you seen their signs?  “On Strike.”  Wow, that’s gripping.  Sometimes they opt for a bit more words: “We’re On Strike.”  Those must be writers on mini-series.

No wonder they’re under-paid.  They under-work.

So what do we demand, we long-suffering TV-viewing American TV-viewers?  We want good slogans at good wages.

Tony Blankley, now at Edelman and Heritage but still writing for the Washington Times, observes:

As a point of comparison, historians have had to reach back to the great general strike of 1926 in Britain, which was called in sympathetic protest against the national lockout of the coal miners, whose work hours had been extended and wages reduced by 25 percent, to assure continued high profits for the coal mine owners. The union refused to accept those conditions of employment with the clarion call: “Not a penny off the pay, not a second on the day.”

Love it!  Exotic! It sings to me!  Heck, if coal miners can be pithy, why can’t Hollywood script writers?

As the writers themselves might put it: They no good.