Tild in da house
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Unauthorized tweet replication:
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[A] better picture of the economic distress related to employment emerges when the number of jobless Americans is combined with two other categories of workers: the underemployed (those who are working part time, for example, because they can’t find full-time work) and the so-called labor force reserve, workers who have abandoned their job searches but who would work if employment became available.
This total pool of underutilized labor has now risen above 24 million, according to researchers at the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston.
Still low. Way low. California just hit 10.1% unemployment the old-fashioned way (by not counting everyone they could get away with not counting).
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NYTimes also obsessed with the $300k crowd (or do they count as part of the Village?)
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The line stretched almost to the table but the bullshit went out the door and down the hall.
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An almost incomprehensibly bigoted screed from Jon Chait who, apparently, believes that realists are hopelessly anti-Israel.
No, reality is anti-Israel. The only thing hopeless about reality is getting neocons to accept it. Either you want war to end, or you’re a neocon. (Or a sociopath, but I’d argue that neocons are a subset of sociopathy.)
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Colby King on cold, and why Chandra is still hot.
Whiteness and the Washington Post.
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The hottest thing on YouTube right now? Great Depression Cooking with Clara.
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A prominent educator said that birth control was producing a nation of criminals.
The same criminals who won WWII and presided over the greatest peacetime economic expansion in history.
Being wrong is no big deal. It’s the certainty with which these cretins are wrong that annoys me.
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What do wealthy 1st World nations have in common?
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How do you piss off a conservative?
Flush their savings down the Wall Street money hole.
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The new game plan? Call everyone who’s not them socialists.
That’ll show us. What I’m not exactly sure, but who am I to plumb the stygian depths of wingnut religious beliefs, especially as they pertain to life after crushing electoral defeat.
I just hope they remember to tell the kids what socialists are because a generation has now grown up in a world where the only socialists are prosperous white Europeans.
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Only racists think this isn’t a racist country.
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Rick Pearlstein writes about a recent show in which Rush only took calls from women so he could learn why his listeners are disproportionately male.
Having the same problem (in the comments at least), I read the Pearlstein post but I’m not sure I learned anything from it. [Cue the hum of the comment engines firing up....]
Thank you so much for the Depression Cooking link. I just watched a half-hour of my life go by.
If I think I’m a chick, I am a chick.
As for Joe the Asshole, I believe that he is inciting violence and should be shot on the spot.
D Koulter? Didn’t you mean you’re “da Koulter”?
Dude, it really must suck when you’re only half as hip as Michele “da WooMan” Bachmann!