"Twain earned local notoriety cranking out newspaper columns in Nevada and San Francisco (often for Harte, whom he had befriended), but in 1865 he had his nationwide breakthrough. “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,” which Twain had heard improvised by a backwoods forty-niner during a prospecting trip, is a somewhat inexplicable comic anecdote about a man who gets cheated in a bet about his pet frog. But the point of the story is all in the telling. Twain assumes the voice of a grizzled, plausibly drunken old miner who buttonholes an unfortunate visitor and weaves his way through the shaggy-dog tale. Something about the story, Tarnoff writes, “spelled the beginning of the end of the old guard in American letters: the decline of a genteel elite that looked to Europe for its influences and the rise of a literature that drew its inspiration from more native sources.”...
"Twain’s innovation was to invert the expected form of narrative, so that unrefined idiomatic English—what Tarnoff repeatedly calls “living speech”—dominated the storyline rather than being slotted into the framework of distinguished prose like specimens in a Victorian hall of wonders. When Twain assumed the gentleman-scholar affect, it was as satire. (This is the strategy of his first book, “The Innocents Abroad,” which takes the perspective of bumbling middle Americans trying to appear sophisticated as they travel through pretentious Old Europe.) He was happiest when attempting a kind of inspired mimicry, touched with artful exaggeration, of the myriad voices in the American cacophony." (read more)
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Jeopardy! joke.
I saw this in comments at Hot Air o a post that references another uncomfortable Jeopardy! moment.
Stop it at .10 and agree with me. Trebek says, "no" the contestant breaks into huge smile and cannot stop. He gives away 200.00 for a joke. Look at the scores. He knew in advance his answer is wrong but the joke is too good to pass up and game-wise there is little to lose, or $200 is worth it.
Then the thing that kills me, although it's been dumbed down during Trebek's term, the game that follows this on t.v., Wheel of Fortune awards 10X as much for 10X less intelligence needed to play. Wheel of Fortune, the game where contestants work out solves puzzling as:
A ST_TCH _N T_ME SAVES N_NE
And everybody claps like seals.
If you are there, then you clap with the back of your hands whenever someone buys a vowel.
It is a very special place where everyone has perfect marriages to beautiful women with just so many beautiful children. Their contestants are positively pristine. Just once, please, just once, a contest who runs counter to custom.
"I have an ugly fat wife who's getting uglier and fatter each day and three horrible monstrous children that drive me insane and that I'm not even sure are mine, and one is this close -->| |<-- to being kicked out of the house. Another does drugs. The third is just like her mother."
"That's different. You'll probably want to get started spinning this wheel."
Ladybird
Bug. Cartoon. What Fresh Hell is This? Topically relevant.
Protagonist representing humanity is met by supporting characters that are personifications of various forms of good and evil.
Originally in English dramas Justice is a character with theological virtue or grace concerned with divine pronouncement of judgement of man. Justice develop over time into judge administering justice himself rather than divine pronouncement. That is Justice becomes a civil force and not a theological one.
Another change develops in morality plays during this same period in the sixteenth century where Equity replaces Justice and assumes the judiciary duties previously performed by Justice. This occurs when Equity declares that his brother Justice has been banished from the country and that he (Equity) will from now on take on the duties of former monarch, Justice.
This is portrayed in the morality play Liberality and Prodigality where Equity serves Virtue in the detection, arrest, and punishment of Prodigality for the robbery and murder of Tenacity.
Pre-reformation plays reinforced the doctrine of the Catholic church. Post reformation plays sought to destroy the credibility of the Catholic church by linking it with Vice (always Catholic).
Noticed in this thread, where the cartoonist has a brief profile and where this comment caught my eye.
A revolting level of skillzWith O.Henry-level irony. That is irony in cartoon form. It could be anything, rabbits, snakes, badgers, what have you, here it is bugs. I wondered how do you characterize this and I cannot slot it but while looking at definitions of morality plays I found this bit interesting on wikipedia.
'click'
Protagonist representing humanity is met by supporting characters that are personifications of various forms of good and evil.
Originally in English dramas Justice is a character with theological virtue or grace concerned with divine pronouncement of judgement of man. Justice develop over time into judge administering justice himself rather than divine pronouncement. That is Justice becomes a civil force and not a theological one.
Another change develops in morality plays during this same period in the sixteenth century where Equity replaces Justice and assumes the judiciary duties previously performed by Justice. This occurs when Equity declares that his brother Justice has been banished from the country and that he (Equity) will from now on take on the duties of former monarch, Justice.
This is portrayed in the morality play Liberality and Prodigality where Equity serves Virtue in the detection, arrest, and punishment of Prodigality for the robbery and murder of Tenacity.
Pre-reformation plays reinforced the doctrine of the Catholic church. Post reformation plays sought to destroy the credibility of the Catholic church by linking it with Vice (always Catholic).
Saturday, April 5, 2014
The heteros strike back
Chick-fil-A eats KFC's lunch:
"Anyone in the northern half of the U.S. is likely scratching her head and wondering why she hasn’t seen Chick-fil-A outlets opening in the neighborhood. Last year Chick-fil-A only had about 1,775 U.S. stores to KFC’s 4,491, and most are in the South. Yet in dollar terms the Colonel is coming up short even with that much larger footprint: Chick-fil-A’s 2013 sales passed $5 billion, while all of KFC’s U.S. restaurants rang up about $4.22 billion, according to Technomic. And that’s with zero dollars coming in to Chick-fil-A on Sundays, when every restaurant is closed."
Yahoo
h/t edutcher
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ed points out, "I think some of the homosexual rights crowd are getting the message that this sort of thing can lose them all the good will they have lied so hard to get."
"Anyone in the northern half of the U.S. is likely scratching her head and wondering why she hasn’t seen Chick-fil-A outlets opening in the neighborhood. Last year Chick-fil-A only had about 1,775 U.S. stores to KFC’s 4,491, and most are in the South. Yet in dollar terms the Colonel is coming up short even with that much larger footprint: Chick-fil-A’s 2013 sales passed $5 billion, while all of KFC’s U.S. restaurants rang up about $4.22 billion, according to Technomic. And that’s with zero dollars coming in to Chick-fil-A on Sundays, when every restaurant is closed."
Yahoo
h/t edutcher
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ed points out, "I think some of the homosexual rights crowd are getting the message that this sort of thing can lose them all the good will they have lied so hard to get."
Between this and Mozilla, I think it will be an interesting next few years as people vote with their pocketbooks. It used to be thought that the population was made up of about 10% homosexuals, but now I'm hearing 2%. Either way, I predict a more cautious approach by businesses in the future.
Who Would You Recommend To Replace Letterman
“@FiveFanPS: Letterman's Late Show successor announced (you had to know this was coming, ha) @DanaPerino pic.twitter.com/rzrdCuKxhk” perfect!
— Dana Perino (@DanaPerino) April 4, 2014
This is a letter
A letter to both sides and
You're stuck in the middle
It's a middle with no left or right
The Conversation: Paid Leave
"New York Mets second baseman Daniel Murphy on Thursday calmly deflected talk-radio criticism of his decision to miss the first two games of the season for the birth of his first child."
"I got a couple of text messages about it, so I'm not going to sit here and lie and say I didn't hear about it," Murphy said about the on-air criticism from WFAN Radio of his decision. "But that's the awesome part about being blessed, about being a parent, is you get that choice. My wife and I discussed it, and we felt the best thing for our family was for me to try to stay for an extra day -- that being Wednesday -- due to the fact that she can't travel for two weeks."
"When Army Spec. Ivan Lopez went on the shooting rampage Wednesday at Ft. Hood, Texas, killing three soldiers and injuring 16 others, he had just learned that superiors in Washington had rejected his request to take a temporary leave to deal with family matters related to his mother’s death, a federal law enforcement official said."
"Officials had turned down an earlier leave request and Lopez was attempting to renew it, said the official, speaking anonymously because the investigation is ongoing."
"The rejection, delivered Wednesday, set him off, the official said." (read more)
ADDED: Some foreign visitors have been confused by all the men with babies to be found in public in Sweden. But actually, it's an effect of Sweden's generous paternity leave.
***
"When Army Spec. Ivan Lopez went on the shooting rampage Wednesday at Ft. Hood, Texas, killing three soldiers and injuring 16 others, he had just learned that superiors in Washington had rejected his request to take a temporary leave to deal with family matters related to his mother’s death, a federal law enforcement official said."
"Officials had turned down an earlier leave request and Lopez was attempting to renew it, said the official, speaking anonymously because the investigation is ongoing."
"The rejection, delivered Wednesday, set him off, the official said." (read more)
ADDED: Some foreign visitors have been confused by all the men with babies to be found in public in Sweden. But actually, it's an effect of Sweden's generous paternity leave.
Oops, sorry, #Mozilla. MT @benshapiro @megynkelly @mozilla's anti-religious discrimination! http://t.co/dzSeRPSOAP … pic.twitter.com/9gku2Frbwq
— Jeff Rainforth (@iResistAll) April 5, 2014
google search [andrew sullivan fascists]
3,670,000 results
* How Much Shoud We Fear Fascists In Ukraine? << The Dish
* I Superman A Fascist? << The Dish
* Ukraine's Tea Party? << The Dish
* Late Nite FDL: Andrew Sullivan Adores a Fascist | Firedoglake
* Andrew Sullivan Thinks Glenn Beck is Creating A 'Proto-Fas...
* Andrew Sullivan << Commentary Magazine
this post is about Andrew Sullivan, so I promise to make it mercifully ...
* More Reason From tthe Right -- The Dail Dish - The Atlantic
The kid holding it, according to the reader who took the pictue, was maybe 16. Obama is a communist and a fascist and a traitor!
* This is what Fascism Looks Like -- The Daily Dish - The Atla..
Black masked police...
* Fascist: Mozilla CEO force to step down for supporting traditional marriage.
Here we are. Goodness, it took a while. I expected this at top. Dood's got a thing about fascism. Yes, all that.
That's very interesting, Andy.
The thing is, you lost me way back there. I see on Daily Dish all kind of interesting things since then, but too bad for me, you lost me way way back there when you got all up in Sara Palin's vajayjay and went spelunking most unseemly and unkindly, for so incredibly long. It was more than just a phase. She is somebody's mother, you know. We honestly wondered how badly dementia had taken hold, we regarded you non compos mentis the way you dismiss conservative women generally, dehumanize them broadly is unacceptable so now when you display a flash of humanity, sudden clear thinking it must be temporary, self-serving, or something so banal as contrary attention grabbing.
And no fair to surprise us his way with a sudden act of sensibility, you fooled us without your armband. These are your people, Andrew. This is what you did. What armband? Sorry, I can only draw Egyptians.
Friday, April 4, 2014
Grant Achatz's Alinea restaurant in Chicago is awarded number one of top 100 restaurants as deemed by paying customers. Third year in a row. He has books too.
Alinea, Grant Achatz rated 4.5 stars on Amazon 69 reviews. Let's read the worst reviews first. Let's guess what they complain about. My guesses:
* can not use a single thing for home recipes. Too complex ingredients too exotic.
* tried a recipe and it didn't work
* book too expensive
* does this thing have an editor? I can't believe...
* something wrong with physical book, unsatisfied with order.
Those are my guesses. Now let's check.
No 1-star ratings. That surprises me.
Only two 2-star ratings. Those will have to do.
* nicest book the reviewer ever saw but way too esoteric.
* interesting photos.
That's why I have never in my life tasted the mysterious messes called tuna salad, chicken salad & egg salad in the US. Their ingredients are always squashed into unrecognizable jumbles of who-knows-what, glued together by excessive amounts of processed goo called mayonnaise but totally different from what true mayonnaise actually is (read a recipe for mayonnaise if you don't believe me).
[Me. Now it's personal. That's what I made tonight, tuna salad, and it is delicious. Ate the whole thing. Fuck you. But what else do you have to say, now that we're into it and now that we know you are thick.]
The food illustrated in the Alinea book shares something with the horrid junk food I just mentioned, except that instead of looking disgusting it looks beautiful. It looks like jewelry or other artistic sculptural work. But it sure don't look like food, & resembles no food I've ever seen in any of the best 3-Star European restaurants I've been privileged to eat at (before I became strictly kosher).
[Me. There you have it, not just regular stupid, resolutely stupid. This 2-star opinion is no value to us. Seven people responded. I bet they are more interesting than the ignorant pinched criticism.]
Let's look.
1) worst review contains ur, cuz alot Why write a review based on pushing culinary envelope when you won't eat anything that doesn't look the way you feel it is suppostd to? Ridiculous.
2) Ed Clark answers back, but his remark is voted down so it disappears. Let's open it.
Extremely hostile and stupid self-contradicting response. Challenges commenter's English, suggests he obstain until he learns, denigrates the term culinary envelope, accuses of being a pretentioius foodie nerd trying to talk tough like Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in the Right Stuff. Then asks, "How many planes have you flown, hot-dog?" Pardon him for preferring food that looks and smells good. Reiterates religious dietary restrictions. Invites the commenter to go to the ER if he still has trouble removing his head from his rectum.
How rude. I can see now why that is voted down. I'm shutting it.
3) #1 returns, Joshua, says back: You're writing a review telling one of the best chef's in the world, whose food you have not eaten, how much better his food would be if he did it differently, and I'm the one with my head up my ass?
You bought a modernist cookbook whose focus is changing texture, appearance, taste and temperature, and then say you prefer food that is recognizable.
If I were reading reviews on a ping pong table and came across a 2 star review of it that said "This table really should be much bigger so that you can stand on it, and the balls really should be covered in a yellow felt, and the paddles really should be more like rackets" I would have made the same comment. Your review was worthless and ridiculous, no matter how many negative, tough guy cliches you'd like to project on me personally.
Invites Ed to rock on.
4) Ed Clark returns but his comment is voted down and closed. Let's open it and see how hostile and thick Ed is.
Oh dear, he does goe on.
Time for your meds. wishes Joshua well on his hallucinations abating, but be careful of wild and dangerous chronic paranoid schizophrenia.
Refers to Joshua's head up his butt again, acknowledges good reviews reiterates he is unlikely to visit.
Bought the book on recommendation of two professional chefs. He likes to keep abreast of gastronomic innovations to determine which, if any, can inspire him to culinary mimicry or analogous applications of the techniques.
cut/paste': To get back to your aggressively supercilious & inane commentary: I had no idea whether or not the book would please me when I bought it. I correctly anticipated that I'd find a wealth of new ideas in it. However, the equipment & service utensils required for Mr Achatz's specialities are quite difficult to find & horrendously expensive. So, without discovery of a "middle ground" enabling one to semi-duplicate some of Alinea's dishes, the book's status in my house will remain largely ornamental (i.e., on the coffee table). BTW, I'm all for tweaking textures, etc., but only when it's practical, intriguing or both.
Finally, you should really take some courses in English usage, philosophy & symbolic logic, as your argumentation is such baseless subjective hogwash & so inconsistent that you appear to playing with fewer than 52 cards in your deck. Cheers
5) You have inflated and deluded self-image. Overwrought writing. Joshua has clearer arguments than you. Stick to writing unposted love letters instead. Your review is useless.
6) This is why reviewers should be vetted. Monumentally off-base with your review and assumptions you bring with you. Exercise in self-flattery and not a commentary on the book or its inherent merits. Overwrought replies confirm you simply haven't gotten over yourself enough for a cogent review.
7) Gives it to Joshua. Expects Ed to retaliate and criticize their grammar. You review is ridiculous junk I ever read. You say pretentious but that actually describes you and your review.
Assuming somebody need psychological help via medication is rude and shows the person being aggressive is you, also unnecessary.
It is as if Fox News was to judge investigative journalism... You just can't really take them serious.
[Me. Going to pass a chance to mention Koch brothers?]
You say in one of your reviews that Chef Achatz should put more "focus on the food"... that alone just shows that you are not aware of the impact he has made on the culinary world... including his tireless study of the products he works with.
Me. So do you want the book or not? It is a very good deal. Apart from these insane two-star reviews every one else loves it. Except for the tiny typeface on light gray background making reading impossible.
One of the many five-star reviews:
Achatz is known for molecular gastronomy, which means he uses chemicals and innovative tools to turn a meal into an explosion of flavor and surprise. This book shows his food being served so it looks like something from outer space; and there is a section that discusses things you might never really buy, but which he uses, like antigriddles, which freezes food instantly.
It's fun to take a book that seems so extreme and out of our comfort zone as home chefs, and to prepare actual recipes from it. This book has us ordering crazy ingredients, and doing things like turning homemade caramel into a powdery shotglass of yumminess.
We've had a blast with the Alinea cookbook, and I highly suggest buying it and having fun. Read Carol's blog, AlineaAtHome.com, for inspiration, and try out a recipe or two on your own. We went from thinking it was a book to look at only, to having our children use some of the recipes (a cracker one, for example) to create their own snacks.
Definitely, one of our favorite cookbooks of all times.
Me: There's the right attitude.
I have Heston Blumenthal's book Fat Duck. It too is a gorgeous book and interesting to read all the way through with wonderful imaginative art besides in addition to outstanding photography. I enjoyed looking through it again, originally that is what this post was about, none of the recipes in that book were tried here either, nor were any of the techniques. It is the similar deal. That is how I made such excellent guesses.
Both books are $35.00 on Amazon and that is an exceedingly good deal for a artsy coffee-table type books, down from $60 for Achatz's book and down from $50 for Blumenthal's book.
What I wanted to show you, if you still with it this far and still interested and if you have a moment, a blog post that spans several pages with a lot of nice photos and brief videos of tourists visiting Fat Duck restaurant and what they see there. The group of travelers heard about the restaurant and decided to try. It is delightful reading. The first video opens, a man who could be your grandpa, could be your uncle, licking his plate, a woman's voice:
Independent.co.uk via Drudge.
Alinea, Grant Achatz rated 4.5 stars on Amazon 69 reviews. Let's read the worst reviews first. Let's guess what they complain about. My guesses:
* can not use a single thing for home recipes. Too complex ingredients too exotic.
* tried a recipe and it didn't work
* book too expensive
* does this thing have an editor? I can't believe...
* something wrong with physical book, unsatisfied with order.
Those are my guesses. Now let's check.
No 1-star ratings. That surprises me.
Only two 2-star ratings. Those will have to do.
* nicest book the reviewer ever saw but way too esoteric.
* interesting photos.
That's why I have never in my life tasted the mysterious messes called tuna salad, chicken salad & egg salad in the US. Their ingredients are always squashed into unrecognizable jumbles of who-knows-what, glued together by excessive amounts of processed goo called mayonnaise but totally different from what true mayonnaise actually is (read a recipe for mayonnaise if you don't believe me).
[Me. Now it's personal. That's what I made tonight, tuna salad, and it is delicious. Ate the whole thing. Fuck you. But what else do you have to say, now that we're into it and now that we know you are thick.]
The food illustrated in the Alinea book shares something with the horrid junk food I just mentioned, except that instead of looking disgusting it looks beautiful. It looks like jewelry or other artistic sculptural work. But it sure don't look like food, & resembles no food I've ever seen in any of the best 3-Star European restaurants I've been privileged to eat at (before I became strictly kosher).
[Me. There you have it, not just regular stupid, resolutely stupid. This 2-star opinion is no value to us. Seven people responded. I bet they are more interesting than the ignorant pinched criticism.]
Let's look.
1) worst review contains ur, cuz alot Why write a review based on pushing culinary envelope when you won't eat anything that doesn't look the way you feel it is suppostd to? Ridiculous.
2) Ed Clark answers back, but his remark is voted down so it disappears. Let's open it.
Extremely hostile and stupid self-contradicting response. Challenges commenter's English, suggests he obstain until he learns, denigrates the term culinary envelope, accuses of being a pretentioius foodie nerd trying to talk tough like Sam Shepard as Chuck Yeager in the Right Stuff. Then asks, "How many planes have you flown, hot-dog?" Pardon him for preferring food that looks and smells good. Reiterates religious dietary restrictions. Invites the commenter to go to the ER if he still has trouble removing his head from his rectum.
How rude. I can see now why that is voted down. I'm shutting it.
3) #1 returns, Joshua, says back: You're writing a review telling one of the best chef's in the world, whose food you have not eaten, how much better his food would be if he did it differently, and I'm the one with my head up my ass?
You bought a modernist cookbook whose focus is changing texture, appearance, taste and temperature, and then say you prefer food that is recognizable.
If I were reading reviews on a ping pong table and came across a 2 star review of it that said "This table really should be much bigger so that you can stand on it, and the balls really should be covered in a yellow felt, and the paddles really should be more like rackets" I would have made the same comment. Your review was worthless and ridiculous, no matter how many negative, tough guy cliches you'd like to project on me personally.
Invites Ed to rock on.
4) Ed Clark returns but his comment is voted down and closed. Let's open it and see how hostile and thick Ed is.
Oh dear, he does goe on.
Time for your meds. wishes Joshua well on his hallucinations abating, but be careful of wild and dangerous chronic paranoid schizophrenia.
Refers to Joshua's head up his butt again, acknowledges good reviews reiterates he is unlikely to visit.
Bought the book on recommendation of two professional chefs. He likes to keep abreast of gastronomic innovations to determine which, if any, can inspire him to culinary mimicry or analogous applications of the techniques.
cut/paste': To get back to your aggressively supercilious & inane commentary: I had no idea whether or not the book would please me when I bought it. I correctly anticipated that I'd find a wealth of new ideas in it. However, the equipment & service utensils required for Mr Achatz's specialities are quite difficult to find & horrendously expensive. So, without discovery of a "middle ground" enabling one to semi-duplicate some of Alinea's dishes, the book's status in my house will remain largely ornamental (i.e., on the coffee table). BTW, I'm all for tweaking textures, etc., but only when it's practical, intriguing or both.
Finally, you should really take some courses in English usage, philosophy & symbolic logic, as your argumentation is such baseless subjective hogwash & so inconsistent that you appear to playing with fewer than 52 cards in your deck. Cheers
5) You have inflated and deluded self-image. Overwrought writing. Joshua has clearer arguments than you. Stick to writing unposted love letters instead. Your review is useless.
6) This is why reviewers should be vetted. Monumentally off-base with your review and assumptions you bring with you. Exercise in self-flattery and not a commentary on the book or its inherent merits. Overwrought replies confirm you simply haven't gotten over yourself enough for a cogent review.
7) Gives it to Joshua. Expects Ed to retaliate and criticize their grammar. You review is ridiculous junk I ever read. You say pretentious but that actually describes you and your review.
Assuming somebody need psychological help via medication is rude and shows the person being aggressive is you, also unnecessary.
It is as if Fox News was to judge investigative journalism... You just can't really take them serious.
[Me. Going to pass a chance to mention Koch brothers?]
You say in one of your reviews that Chef Achatz should put more "focus on the food"... that alone just shows that you are not aware of the impact he has made on the culinary world... including his tireless study of the products he works with.
Me. So do you want the book or not? It is a very good deal. Apart from these insane two-star reviews every one else loves it. Except for the tiny typeface on light gray background making reading impossible.
One of the many five-star reviews:
Achatz is known for molecular gastronomy, which means he uses chemicals and innovative tools to turn a meal into an explosion of flavor and surprise. This book shows his food being served so it looks like something from outer space; and there is a section that discusses things you might never really buy, but which he uses, like antigriddles, which freezes food instantly.
It's fun to take a book that seems so extreme and out of our comfort zone as home chefs, and to prepare actual recipes from it. This book has us ordering crazy ingredients, and doing things like turning homemade caramel into a powdery shotglass of yumminess.
We've had a blast with the Alinea cookbook, and I highly suggest buying it and having fun. Read Carol's blog, AlineaAtHome.com, for inspiration, and try out a recipe or two on your own. We went from thinking it was a book to look at only, to having our children use some of the recipes (a cracker one, for example) to create their own snacks.
Definitely, one of our favorite cookbooks of all times.
Me: There's the right attitude.
I have Heston Blumenthal's book Fat Duck. It too is a gorgeous book and interesting to read all the way through with wonderful imaginative art besides in addition to outstanding photography. I enjoyed looking through it again, originally that is what this post was about, none of the recipes in that book were tried here either, nor were any of the techniques. It is the similar deal. That is how I made such excellent guesses.
Both books are $35.00 on Amazon and that is an exceedingly good deal for a artsy coffee-table type books, down from $60 for Achatz's book and down from $50 for Blumenthal's book.
What I wanted to show you, if you still with it this far and still interested and if you have a moment, a blog post that spans several pages with a lot of nice photos and brief videos of tourists visiting Fat Duck restaurant and what they see there. The group of travelers heard about the restaurant and decided to try. It is delightful reading. The first video opens, a man who could be your grandpa, could be your uncle, licking his plate, a woman's voice:
"That's enough now, Dear."The story in words is here. I found it again by searching [fat duck +"we paid (boy, did we)"
Independent.co.uk via Drudge.
Listen To This
WXPR is a small, unaffiliated public radio station broadcasting form a small town in northern Wisconsin. Most of its programming is done locally, and it's really good.
The Blues Friday show is broadcast every Friday form 6PM to 11PM, central time. It is the best blues programming I've ever heard on any radio station.
Here's a link to the show's website. You can stream the show. It's worth it.
I also recommend the excellent Saturday afternoon bluegrass show.
The Blues Friday show is broadcast every Friday form 6PM to 11PM, central time. It is the best blues programming I've ever heard on any radio station.
Here's a link to the show's website. You can stream the show. It's worth it.
I also recommend the excellent Saturday afternoon bluegrass show.
Not so fast with that optimism, buddy!
The new jobs report was released today. I have heard a few people make some optimistic noises about the fact that private sector jobs have matched the 2008 peak in terms of numbers. (See here, for example, though they do have the decency to caveat the hell out of the article.)
What I'm not hearing, and don't expect to hear from the Administration, is a comment about full-time jobs. As of March 1 2014, the US economy had 3,872,000 FEWER full-time jobs than it did at its peak in November 2007. And that's after almost five years of recovery.
And given that the working age population has grown considerably in the intervening years, the employment situation is actually even worse than it appears.
So don't let the bastards tell you how goddamned good we've got it, and what a wonderful job they've done. Because it just ain't so.
So don't let the bastards tell you how goddamned good we've got it, and what a wonderful job they've done. Because it just ain't so.
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