Does President Obama Ever Do any Real Work?

I turned on the TV today, and guess who I saw–again! Yes, our prime-time President. And he was on TV yesterday and the day before that. Does he really have to be on television every single day? Couldn’t he actually sit at his desk in the Oval Office and do a little real work once [...]

Unemployment Chronicles – could it really be that…

I GOT A JOB !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After 2 layoffs within 4 months, illness, stress that was eating up my insides, I finally got one!   Ok, it’s a PT job but good paying part time job, which means I can pay rent and fill up my gas tank on a more consistent basis.  I start this Monday. [...]

Mathmagical Formulas

Usually when economysterians like Dakinikat explain money stuff they use a semi-secret special language that makes my eyes glaze over and I slump lifelessly in a semi-comatose state until they are done.  Even Paul Krugman droneswrites in a narcolepsy-inducing shrill monotone.  That’s why I have had trouble understanding WTF happened to our economy until  Matt Taibbi explained in [...]

Friday: A sensitive subject

Dakinikat says this cartoon by Thomas Oliphant of the Boston Globe reminds her of something: Mr. Oliphant should expect to get long, lecturing letters about the Holocaust, which he obviously has never heard of. In other news: The NYTimes still hates Kirsten Gillibrand.  Now they are highlighting the work she did as a young attorney [...]