Election Obsessd

... PhD Comics. Sometimes, this dude captures my state of mind. Actually, it's more accurate to say that he's captured my state of mind from a few days ago. Now, I'm cold, I'm sick, and I'm bed-ridden.

Stocks

I have about 1/3rd of my savings in stocks. So today! those stocks are at the price I bought them. And so today! my savings are finally going down the drain.

When I discovered this, I did something decidedly odd. I laughed out loud.

A little later, it sort of sunk in. I'm found myself reading the new york times and wondering when the market will bottom.

The future looks decidedly bleak.

Something in it for everyone!

It's XKCD that makes me laugh today...

Cooperatives come to America

Read here, from the New York Times.

Btw, the conservatives were actually annoyed(!) that Obama pronounced Pakistan correctly. This is so fun!

i Loved this story

I am sitting in the CLIC lab doing - guess what - I'm reading an article about Michelle Obama in the Washington Post. How it made me gasp in wonderment - romance, idealism, ambition, everything you can possibly want in a story! Maybe I'm really thirsting for some fiction - I haven't read a novel forever. I mean, that's what a 'story' is, right - a product of blinkered sifting in complex facts, lives and events.

In the same vein, there's this new book - True Enough, by Farhad Manjoo. I just read this review and man! I so want to read it. Here's another review.