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…
Category: A Day in the Life
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…
Getting Jobbed
Industries that are literally destroying the planet and human livelihood have recently found a new pitch to make themselves palatable to the average American. No one really wants to get fracked or drilled or whatever new word they’ve come up…
1,276
Well, for all my talk yesterday about 1,277 books, I found an inadvertent duplicate in the list that had to be edited out. So it’s actually 1,276 books on the newly updated Book List. You should still check it out,…
The Day Before Tomorrow
Today, I feel like I finally hit my stride for productivity and balance this vacation. I return to work on Wednesday. I’d imagine this is a lot like what retirees feel in their waning weeks of work at a particular…
Object Lesson
I have learned a lot about myself in the past week. This is good. Learning is fun! One of the things I have learned, or relearned perhaps, is how little I am surprised by things. Most people like surprises. I…