Saturday: Why the desperation?

So, I went to see my employment counselor, like a cat dragged in from the cold.  ”Fix my CV! PLEASE!”, I cried.  He calmly and methodically walked me through the procedure of finding a new job.  Just being with him lowers my heart rate.  During the first meeting, he told me that the he sees [...]

Thursday: Can we have Bernie Sanders for President? Please???

Eastern PA and all of NJ is under a severe weather alert.  Friends of mine in PA got a tornado warning and were told to take cover.  It’s going to be a rough day following a rough day in Alabama, Mississippi and Georgia yesterday.  The mayor of Tuscaloosa says damage to his city is catastrophic. [...]

Ok, can we put the birther nonsense to rest now???

He brought forth the birth certificate. Like it or not, the guy is a genuine, home grown American. He was born in Hawaii *after* it became a state, not that it would have made a difference as Hawaii was a US territory before that. He wasn’t born in the Kingdom of Hawaii nor does he [...]

Monday: what Ian says

We’re starting to see convergence in some of the left blogosphere about what will happen next year if Obama is the Democratic party’s nominee and it ain’t pretty. Ian Welsh lays it out: Obama is not turning things around, what he is doing is negotiating with Republicans how fast the decline will be, and how [...]

Faradays and collaborators

This week, I am at a science summit in Philadelphia, atrios’ urban hellhole. The traffic is miserable, the parking is expensive (although, yesterday, I found a lot that only charged me $10 for the whole day. No sexual favors involved. Go figure.). I love public transportation but this is not a post about that. No, [...]

Saturday: Republicans have ALWAYS Hated Medicare

So, the Republicans have voted to end Medicare as we know it and throw our parents and ourselves to the mercy of the insurance market with vouchers.  The new budget bill the House Republicans passed yesterday cuts trillions of dollars of support for poor and working families while enriching the already rich even more.  It’s [...]

Thursday: Perplexed by Pork Roll

Update: Atrios’ Lucky Ducky list is out!  I am one of 412K in new unemployment insurance claims.  I have arrived! I’ve been living in NJ for two decades and have never eaten pork roll.  My former colleague, Ralph, a New Jersey native, used to wax eloquently about pork roll in the same way my old [...]

Lefties, take the pledge

Ahhh, I see that the left blogosphere has finally come to the point where they no longer want to vote for Obama in 2012. We won’t say we told you so, again, but we will offer some unsolicited advice. If you don’t like the way they are kicking you in the teeth, you have to [...]

Wednesday: An Inauspicious Start

Wouldn’t you know, I inflamed a back muscle while rooting through my car for that damn CV folder and have been somewhat incapacitated for the last 48 hours.  This is so weird.  I used to have no respect for people who constantly claim that back problems prevent them from working.  Now, I are one.  {{Sigh}} [...]

Unemployment Day #1

I woke up this morning to go to a Biotech recruitment fair at a local community college.  My “professional” clothes fit me nicely now after over a year of feeling like I had a target on my back and finding out I wasn’t imagining it.  My actual professional clothes are denim jeans and professional chef’s [...]