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John Mayer - All I Want For Christmas Is You
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Spreading a little holiday cheer… plus who doesn’t love John Mayer?
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Raise your hand if you used to collect starfish. Yep.
Starfish are the only things that make New England beaches worthwhile.
Client on 'Flash'
At my old company, we met with a [elderly] client to discuss what we would add to his website. We asked him if he wanted flash on the webpage which seemed to shock him a bit… we later found out that he thought flash meant a naked man would run across the screen when people visited.
This is actually kind of sweet. It reminds me of the difference in slang between countries. When I went to Australia, ‘fanny pack’ is slang for… well… girl parts. So during our first day there, my friend and I were talking about being touristy and wearing fanny packs like all the tourists in DC. The older couple next to us on the bus looked both shocked and appalled.
If you’re looking for a job right now, your prospects are terrible. There are six times as many Americans seeking work as there are job openings, and the average duration of unemployment — the time the average job-seeker has spent looking for work — is more than six months, the highest level since the 1930s. You might think, then, that doing something about the employment situation would be a top policy priority. But now that total financial collapse has been averted, all the urgency seems to have vanished from policy discussion, replaced by a strange passivity. There’s a pervasive sense in Washington that nothing more can or should be done, that we should just wait for the economic recovery to trickle down to workers. This is wrong and unacceptable.
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Paul Krugman (via azspot) (via shorterexcerpts) The urgency to bailout “too big to fail” banks and the lack of urgency to bailout people who WANT to work is criminal. (via soupsoup) Krugman continues to be one of the sharpest writers and critics out there. (via newsweek) |
