In the movie "Aliens", a little girl named Newt, found by a visiting crew, gives insight into the cruel, fear-inducing aliens that have decimated her community and home. "They mostly come out at night" she says, "mostly". The aliens that haunt me during this recession mostly come out at night too. They wake me up […]
This current recession is a doozie and there is talk of it either progressing into what is either called a "double-dip", a full blown depression, or a long slow slog to recovery. It's bad either way you look at it. Those coming of age in anemic economies have lower salaries as adults compared to those […]
This is from Dave Hanson in The New Yorker magazine. Hilarious! Gone are the Cosmopolitans and pomegranate martinis—bartenders are designing a whole new breed of cocktails for 2009…. Long Island Iced 401(k) Put hopes in shaker. Add dreams. Shake until dashed, then drink all the vodka, gin, tequila, and rum left in liquor cabinet. Bear […]