Too often they are corporate shit-shows with major label agendas and huge crowds of assholes that I'd rather not spend my weekend in line for a Porta-Potty with.
How would a truly "no labels" agenda look if it reflected the strongly-held policy preferences held by Americans across the political spectrum, and weighed the consensus view of truly non-partisan experts?
Naturally for the brand whose parent company LVMH was recently listed by Forbes as the most valuable luxury brand in the world, commercial impetus is never far from the label's agenda.
They even have a label for it: Agenda 21, and the JBS has a step-by-step guide to how to fight it (see Agenda 21 Rollback Manual).
For this is the label that sets the agenda at Milan fashion week.
Though Mr Bawer objects to the label "conservative", the political agenda of most of the essayists is modest, and mainly aimed at getting the same legal status for gays as for straights.
One of the few exceptions was Theodore Roosevelt, who chose to call his 1912 campaign platform the "New Nationalism". But this was simply his catchy label for a progressive agenda that included greater regulation of business and a social security system.
"What started as a corporate-driven agenda to label protesters as eco-terrorists has become institutionalized," he said.
I'm sure that everyone who creates, promotes, or accepts a definition of any word, or criteria for any label, has a personal agenda.
President Obama said Justice Souter had no political agenda; defied labels; had no particular ideology; rejected absolutes; and reached for a just result.
