My Father-In-Law Asked Me This Very Same Question Once At A Labor Day Barbecue

Luckily for him, I had tongs in one hand and a beer in the other, or I might have been doing a bunch of finger-pointing and gesticulating madly. Especially because he knows how fond I am of unions. Are they perfect? No. Are they needed? Hell. Yes.

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