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In an idea created by someone with a serious irony deficiency, today’s Washington Post has a story about picketers who are hired just to protest. According to the Post, the unions have hiring the homeless, day-laborers, and students to march in picket lines.

The irony? The union doesn’t offer benefits, better hours, or any of the things organized labor “gives” (read: falsely promises) to its workers. Perhaps these professional picketers should unionize…