joshsternberg:
Only on Fox News is 8.6% the same as 9% and higher than 8.9% and 8.8%.
Via MediaMatters
i’m with fox news, it’s shocking that people mis-represent the unemployment numbers.
This is great - Restaurant slang
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so good.
When people ask, “How are you not exploding with stress with everything on your plate?”, I know they only mean it in the best, most compassionate way. And for those who have beautiful healthy children and gleaming new stoves, I do not discount their heartaches and worries and crises. But what bothers me is the implicit expectation: that people are waiting for our inevitable breakdown, a breast-beating howl against fate that is sure to come once we realize we’ll truly never “have it all” — because of our imperfect son.
For all the people who are puzzled by my seeming happiness, I’ll be glad to let them know my “secret.” I’m not in denial, I’m not on antidepressants, and I don’t live in a fantasy world. I have a wonderful husband and I am pursuing a career I’ve dreamed of since I was nine years old. I have a beautiful son, friends, and a working stove. I am not paraplegic. I have parents who, through luck and fate, had me here in the United States, and not in North Korea. I live in a time where my awful vision can be corrected with glasses. I am a college graduate. I am never hungry unless I choose to be.
Do I have enough? Resoundingly: yes. And I ask you to take a moment: I suspect you might, too.
That’s Boris Johnson, if you didn’t already guess.
Here’s 20 jolly good reasons to feel cheerful about the Games - Boris Johnson - Telegraph
A grocery store tales out the complex decision making required of ManShoppers and makes a one stop aisle.
Buns, jerky, Doritos, Beer.
(via Where’s the beef (and beer)? Grocery store gives guys a ‘man aisle’ - Bites)
newyorker:
In this week’s issue, Ezra Klein considers why politicians sometimes drastically reverse their policy opinions, and why party members usually follow suit in support of such changes. Klein writes,
…as we’re increasingly able to choose our information sources based on their tendency to back up whatever we already believe, we don’t even have to hear the arguments from the other side, much less give them serious consideration.
Click-through to read more: nyr.kr/McCpUd
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So so great, a must follow for a few weeks.
How does putting a price on time affect our ability to smell the roses?
Freakonomics indeed.
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