The Callus

squashed:

Speaking tentatively, because I don’t have all the details I would like, I’m happy with this settlement. It’s huge. As in, it’s over three tines bigger than the huge tobacco settlement. Critically, it also preserves borrower’s rights to sue.

Here’s the bottom line: a dead bank on a platter…

Meanwhile, I can stop worrying that a bunch of mortgage morons / crooks are going to put me out of a job. It’s a good day.

But pour one out for the sanctity of contracts, huh?

Just going down the line here:

Rick Santorum would take away your rights to abortion and birth control.

Mitt Romney pioneered the use of the individual mandate for health benefits in Massachusetts. This laid the groundwork for what is now known as “Obamacare”. He backed away from this later.

Newt Gingrich proposed utilizing the individual mandate when he “consulted” (lobbied) with health care firms for Medicare Part D. He backed away from this later.

Barack Obama is obviously a commie fascist.

Tea Partiers voting for Rick Santorum because he’s not a health care authoritarian only to find that he’d make their birth control illegal

So this is awesome. Jobless claims keep falling even though Europe’s economies died an America’s was priced at 50/50 recession risk for Q1/Q2 2012. Not to beat a dead horse, but everyone was wrong: the employment picture is getting better (unexpected) without significant stimulus (very unexpected) beyond ZIRP.

This rules and is a good forward sign for the next unemployment report. If the trend sticks we could dip below 8%. Fantastic news for the global economy and Americans still waiting to feel whole again after 2007/2008. Put on your rally caps.

Why are you like that?

So there’s this epidemic problem of people treating other people like kiosks. I’m pretty sure this has been around forever, this isn’t a new problem, but how the fuck is this still a problem? Other people are not placed on this earth to serve you! Other people are not unresponsive resistive touchscreens that need your finger to jab into them a little harder so they can give you what you want. 

Case in point: I’m on my way out of the gym and the little smoothie bar thing is closing. And some idiot apparently really wanted a smoothie because he practically lost his mind at some poor young woman who was closing down the thing for the night. I mean really railing about how it’s absurd that she not re-assemble the smoothie equipment to make him a protein whateverthefuck. Dude: get a cold cup of shut the fuck up.

I know smoothie young woman. She sells me my chocolate milk. She doesn’t deserve that crap from people - she’s just trying to make smoothies and sell chocolate milk. She’s a person.

This kind of crap happens all the time to service employees and that is garbage, friends. It’s beyond ridiculous to act like an imperial little fuckwit to people you seem to think you have artificial status over. Say please and thank you, even if your day sucked or someone is a little slow or having a tough time; waiting on people is bullshit work that sucks. Be nice to people - be the highlight of their day. It’s not hard. You know how I know? Because they taught you in fucking kindergarten, you unbelievable assholes.

kelsium:

Stop appending the word “skinny” to food products. 

For real.

What’s the point in “skinny”, anyway? Why do people want to be skinny?

To me, it only makes sense to be strong. We should probably stop telling people to starve themselves - eat! For fuck’s sake, eat! Then pick things up and put them down.

Life’s about moving shit from A to B. That’s the whole biological purpose of life: let’s shift all these chemicals around! You can move more shit around more quickly if you’re strong. Skinny is fine and all, but give me strong. Serve me a Strong Vanilla Latte. Sell me a 6000-calorie diet plan in which you starve yourself of weakness.

The symbol of American success often involves having the biggest house possible, but our outsized fantasies seem to be shifting. According to a new survey, more than three quarters of us consider having sidewalks and places to take a walk one of our top priorities when deciding where to live. Six in 10 people also said they would sacrifice a bigger house to live in a neighborhood that featured a mix of houses, stores, and businesses within an easy walk.

We are social creatures. You cannot gate the world away - it starves the spirit. We need neighbors, casual encounters, the sound and sight of human life.

(Source: azspot)