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August 30, 2010
"Think the economy is bad? Worse is coming"
Not the best way to start off your week: Economic prospects continue to grow gloomier as the Commerce Department on Friday revised the second-quarter growth rate substantially downward from the initial estimate of 2.4 percent to a mere 1.6 percent. Just to stay on an even keel in terms of job creation, the growth rate needs to be at least 3 percent. It has averaged only 2.9 percent for the
Self service
David Thompson: But rejecting “liberal guilt,” as manifest all but daily in the pages of the Guardian, doesn’t require an indifference to, or denial of, real injustice; merely a dislike of pretension and dishonesty, and a wariness of guilt being distorted into a pantomime and fetish –- in which rhetorical self-harm is an assertion of superiority. Well, you have to admit, David, that nothing feels quite so good as showing
My twenty-fourth brief conversation with the ghost of John Merrick
Me: “You know who I really dig? Like, lots? The Lord. The Lord, that’s who I dig.” Merrick: “I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!” Me: “He lifts me up. So I can climb higher than a mountain.” Me: “I shit thee not.” Merrick: “I AM A HUMAN BEING!” Me: “There you go. Testify, my horribly deformed brother! I need the readers…!”*