We're parked at a red light on Pico, right outside Fox. Picketers are there. They chant. They march. And, when passing drivers honk in support, they jump.

From his perch in the back seat, our toddler considers this for a few seconds and then comes to this conclusion: "They jump when you honk! Honk again! Look! They jumped again!"

If that isn't a metaphor for labor negotiations in Hollywood, we don't know what is.

Our cell phone picture was lousy, so we stole this one from the NYT