As these words are written, it is Thursday morning and I am in New Mexico to promote my new novel, "The Last Thing You Surrender." I have to be back home before Monday to teach a class. If my return flight were canceled because, say, the TSA went on strike, I'd be in a world of hurt. But I would also understand and respect that decision.
That's an expression Martin Luther King used -- he credited Jesse Jackson -- in the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike as he urged boycotts and other forms of economic coercion in support of the strikers.