A Tribute to Michael from another Gen Xer

UPDATE:  Michael Jackson died after a Demerol Injection (via Gawker).
I know I’ve been out of the loop here at the Confluence, but I came here because this is home to me on the intertubez.
I was 5 years old when Elvis Presley died.  I knew him very little.  My mom had a couple of his records [...]

Bea Arthur – May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009

A Diva has passed away.
Bea Arthur – probably the best TV & stage comedienne since Lucille Ball – died today at the age of 86 from cancer.
From Wiki:
In 1972, Arthur was cast as the title character in the television series Maude. She played Maude Findlay, an outspoken liberal living in the affluent community of Tuckahoe, [...]

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.
Nope, no health insurance.
But hey, at [...]

“Don’t expect too much from me,” says the POTUS

I’m just lucky that I still have some Tums handy:
From Yahoo News/AP

Obama seeks patience, warns of expecting too much
LOS ANGELES – Facing largely adoring crowds far from Washington, President Barack Obama on Thursday asked Americans to back his far-reaching economic and health policies, but warned them not to expect too much from him or the [...]

Just cuz it’s fun, more Caption This Photo madness!

I just couldn’t resist!  These are from yesterday during Obama’s campaign stop in California:
Photo 1:
(update: please note the upper left corner)

Photo 2:

Photo 3:

Open thread, but I found this gem to discuss:
WASHINGTON – At least 13 firms receiving billions of dollars in bailout money owe a total of more than $220 million in unpaid federal taxes, [...]

Some more Caption This Photo fun…

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Leave us you captions in the comments sections…and away we go!
PS:  RIP Natasha Richardson.  A truly great talent and vehement AIDS activist.
From one of my favorite movies, The Handmaid’s Tale (just noticed a part is NSFW):

Hump Day Afternoon Open Thread

This video is dedicated to all the Obama worshippers justifying their love for Mr. Teleprompter Jesus.  Too bad Ireland’s not laughing.  Keep holding on to that Precious!

On a more serious note, watch this next one, from HBO’s miniseries John Adams.  Jefferson, the flawed, but brilliant founding father that he is, WAS [...]

Tuesday Ramblings plus a Caption This Photo!

CAPTION THIS PHOTO:

Write your caption in the comments section!
Hello my dearest Conflucians!  We’ve been doing a lot of money talk here at the blog.   Even though I don’t know jack about finance or economics like my more illustrious brethren here, I thought I’d add my two cents (about what we all have in our [...]

Unemployed Chronicles – the saga continues: a rant with sprinklings of joy

Here I am – and one million apologies to my fellow Conflucians.  I’ve been a gawd-damn mess the past couple of weeks.  Our dearest Katiebird told me that everything that I’m going through healthwise is actually stress.  I didn’t follow her words – but being the enlightened sage that she is, I have to finally [...]

By request – Unemployment (and Uninsured) Chronicles

(Photo source, Darth Dragon on Flickr)
As I did in last weeks’s Unemployment Chronicles, (and many thanks again to Laurie again for suggesting it), I’ll talk about some of the things that I’m going through now that more than half a million Americans are unemployed.  While the President parties in Camp David this weekend, probably to [...]