Curiosity descending to the surface of Mars as photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Hard to fathom this sort of thing. But: wow.
Tag: photography
One dollar’s worth of potted meat product. From The Value of a Dollar Project, or, as I like to think of it: Your New and Exciting Life under the Roadmap for America’s Future.
Well, 98% of you anyway.
Mid-air
“I had a 1978 el Camino with astroturf in the back- you boys know what that was for, huh!”
UI issues
by Jordan Eizenga
…research by the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank has found that the current link between high UI benefits and poor job search efforts is weak. Researchers found that unemployed workers who qualify for UI benefits have been unemployed for only 1.6 weeks longer than those who do not qualify for such benefits. This suggests that the persistently high level of unemployment is not so much a function of labor supply, but rather labor demand. In other words, workers are willing to work, but employers are not very interested in hiring them.
Yep, yep, yep, a thousand times: YEP. While it’s always convenient and even mildly masturbatory to blame the victim, the fact is people want to work. And, like the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy, the Welfare Queen with Her Cadillac is was and always will have been a figment of Reagan and the right wing’s id-maginations.
Sorry, but it’s true.
About time somebody took action.
Lemkin 