The year has been slow to arrive. My family celebrated Christmas on New Year’s Day, despite the luminaria display on the normal date of the 24th, one marred (despite the optimism of my previous post) by a massive windstorm that…
Category: A Day in the Life
Enchanted Evening
Everything’s just a little more intense in New Mexico. The colors are a little bit brighter, the emotions run a little bit higher, the sounds resonate a little bit louder, the smells waft a little bit stronger. You may think…
Cliff-Jumping
It’s really hard to tell whether there’s an actual crisis underway in the US federal government over sequestration. The original title of this post was going to be “Sequestration Now!” and it was going to be written as many as…
My Public Ballot, 2012 Edition
I first did this four years ago, when I lived in a state where the people are permitted to actually exercise democracy instead of republicanism and vote directly on a lot of issues. I also explained in a contemporary post…
My Name’s Sandy, A Hurricane-y
Original lyrics by Storey Clayton based on and to be sung to the tune of “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen and brought to you in part by cabin fever I caused a wave and a swell Turned a…
Interconnection
I shouldn’t be writing right now. I should be reading. I have time away from my apartment, the limbo between a day off and a day on, waiting for our debate event tonight and hoping that my absentee landlord is…
Mitt Romney and the Post-Political Nation
People have been asking me what happened to Duck and Cover. The last D&C I wrote was in early March of this year, and that was really only because I always bring the comic back for the Oscar season and…
Unemployment Ticks Up to 13.6% in August
The actual unemployment rate ticked up in August, to 13.6%. It was at 13.5% in July. 13.6% is the highest rate since August 2011, which matched that figure, while July 2011 was 13.8%, the highest since the so-called “Great Recession”…
Derivatives
Perhaps you saw “Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter” in theaters this summer. Or you’ve read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, the best-selling novel. Maybe you’ve seen or read one of the millions of derivations or mash-ups or sequels or post-scripts or…
Follow-Up: No Effects of Aging
A couple days ago, I posted at length about jobs and where they’re going and the hidden unemployment rate. I promised to hop back onto the BLS website, a wealth of statistical information about our country, and look up the…