When I was in high school, I devised a thought experiment that I discussed extensively with my friends. It was called “Cop Immunity”. My question was whether someone would take the deal of having total immunity to all interactions of…
Tag: A Day in the Life
Fear Factor
I am continually discovering how much of my life is fueled by fear. I’ve ridiculed fear a lot in this blog lately, most especially in criticizing what motivates voters and pointing out how silly it is for Americans to fear…
Tournament Time
I love tournaments. I already talked a couple months back about how I love competition for its own sake, the thrills of the rise and fall of one’s prospect and the possibility of winning something. And I’ve even meditated extensively…
Why We Love Serial… and May Eventually Hate It
Spoiler alert, kind of: I will make reference to anecdotes about this show through its current airing, which is Episode 9, but probably not say anything that actually ruins your listening experience of the show, yet. More spoiling might be…
Why No One is Voting
Turns out my Facebook feed is the exception. No one is voting in the United States. According to the New York Times, the elections earlier this month set a 72-year low for voter turnout, with 36.3% voting. (For context, Catalonia’s…
You’ll Never Believe How Bad Internet Headlines Have Become!
Google “I didn’t write the headline“. Make sure you use the quotations. Or I’ll do it for you. 30,200 hits for disavowal of the headline content, almost entirely by the actual authors of the post or article that was being…
Decayed Decade
I almost called this post “The Full View of History”. But of course ten years is hardly a full view. A little over a decade ago, I wrote this on my blog at the time: “Yesterday, Em & I were…
It Doesn’t Really Snow Here
A quick click of the refresh button will show you some new imagery around here. To review, here was the old header: And here is the new: Of course the actual versions are much larger, trying to span the entire…
Americans Leaving the Labor Force: Who are These People?
I’m not the only person talking about the people who have left the labor force in the last ten years. It’s a hard story to ignore, though most of the media is up to this challenge. But CBS and the…
Unemployment Drops to 5-Year Low… of 11.71%
Unemployment in the United States dropped precipitously in October 2014 according to this morning’s report issued by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). The report shows that actual unemployment dipped by almost a quarter-percent month-over-month, declining from 11.94% in September…