Politics
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Who’s In Charge Here?
This story from The Atlantic website kicked the rant engine into gear. When, oh when will we ever learn from history – much less take control over our livelihoods. The… Read more.
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Sometimes You Can’t Make This Stuff Up
Scene from ‘Up In the Air’, a movie based around a traveling layoff agent. This is a funny concept being tried (at least in some upstart companies). As someone who… Read more.
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What Fools These Unemployed, Be!
It’s a sad feeling when one of the last publications you depend on for unbiased, relatively truthful information, sidles up with whatever powers that be. I speak of the Christian… Read more.
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What For the Grammys?
Just got home after stocking shelves at the department store. Two nights in a row, #customers basically #slobbered through the aisles. If you pick up an item to examine it… Read more.
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Vive Le Charlie Hebdo
You’ve heard about this today; there’ll be more over the next few days (primarily from European news outlets – I don’t hold out much hope from American news outlets. They’d… Read more.
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Just What I (Didn’t) Want For Christmas
Taking a short break from my #nanowrimo participation (yes, I know it’s December – some of us are rather slow). Two links to share with you: The first from Cory… Read more.
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Ebola Conspiracy or Earth’s White Cell Count
WARNING! This post may contain sensitive content that may or may not be true. Second case announced on CNN today. A nurse who treated patient zero (now referred to as… Read more.
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BMOI (Big Mouth On Internet)
The magic of blogging comes from the freedom of anonymity to write whatever comes to our silly homo-sapient minds. We derive individual pleasure, or at least satisfaction, when we publish… Read more.
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F U, Mr. Speaker
I made a mistake. I was jumping around some of my news bookmarks, and opened just one, talking yet again about long term unemployment. My degree says I have a… Read more.
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It Must Be Better In Other Countries, Because…
Here at this blog, we’re famous (in our own minds) for kvetching, whinging, and all-out opining on our subject du jours (Yes, I’m aware that I’ve managed to mangle spelling… Read more.
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The Second Coming of Insolvency
Or, The Coming of the Second Insolvency? While cleaning up my drafts folder, I scrolled down to a post I made in February; Why Is It My Fault That I… Read more.
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What If You Could ‘Cast’ Washington?
Not Sure (Sorry, a pun via the movie, Idiocracy), if others have done this before, but as I watched the Sunday morning pundits I had the idea of who I would cast… Read more.
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Infomercials Disguised as Educational Articles on LinkedIn (IDEAL)
Yet another potentially useful social app bites the dust. I have a LinkedIn account. Its primary purpose is to keep me connected with people/companies that I have either worked for,… Read more.
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Americabal
An open letter to the suit and tie thieves in the capitol of amerika: Enough is enough. Today, the bloodsucking TIC (thief in charge) made public his request for ’emergency’… Read more.
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Gangster Government?
[Fresh article to add on] The Dow Jones index closed above 17,000 just before the American Independence Day holiday weekend. Also occurring was the publication of a massive amount of… Read more.
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