Once again, Republicans are trying to kill off PBS and NPR. For those of you who have fond memories of Sesame Street, Mr Rogers, Nova and the like, and want to fight back, here's a way ( Read more... )

"In the 16th and 17th centuries there was much speculation in learned circles that lemmings were in fact  'spontaneously generated' by conditions of the air."

The Renaissance AND magically-appearing rodents....I was clearly born during the wrong century...

A local supermarket has been tempting me with its TAB Cola for quite a while. I had an unhealthy curiosity about the stuff, almost bordering on artificial nogtalgia. If one could actually taste the 1970s, I imagined it would taste like a whole buncha TAB.

Ignoring the date stamped on the side (1993), I took a sip, found the taste to be " ( Read more... )

AFLAC got tied to the tree stump, and the axe is about to fall. No point going on about why really...I remember the look everyone gave me when I told them what job I had. Suffice to say, being a salseperson is probably as bad as you think it is.  It might be a great job for some, but from what I've seen it takes some qualities I'd rather not have ( Read more... )

Apparently, Myspace has become so omnipresent, that one can sign up for an account and not even know it.    I doubt I'll ever use it, but if you want to make yourself one friend more popular feel free.

What I could use is a nap. Also some food. the starvation-look is rather chique, but hunger pangs are bothersome. Yay post-college living!

NEWSFLASH: Commission work is a completely different animal than other jobs ( Read more... )

they act like upping the minimum wage would cause every known volcano on earth to erupt simultaneously....

It's common knowledge that people attribute their successes to themselves and blame their failures on factors they can't control. Acknowledging that reality is somewhere in-between does not negate the fact that given a good or bad enough lot, the outcome is all-but assured ( Read more... )

...that I did graduate, as proven by the degree I received in the mail. The thing is lying around on my dresser rather unceremoniously because I am too poor to afford the $70 to get it framed.


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Dug up while looking at real estate:

• That no-man's land area between Downtown and Oakland that we could never figure out what it was called....is apparently two neighborhoods. The area around the lower hill, near the Mellon Arena is Crawford-Roberts, while the neighborhood along the cliff that Fifth/Forbes runs through is called the Bluffs. ( Read more... )