Archive for February 21, 2010
Gun Nation
Don’t tick off the guy in the tent or RV next to you when you go camping. As of tomorrow, guns — including semi-automatics — will be allowed in national parks.
Strike another win for the NRA.
Screwed
Reading this heartbreaking article about the unemployed and the possibility, no, the probability that millions of jobs will not return, and this sentence leapt out at me: “Automation has helped manufacturing cut 5.6 million jobs since 2000 — the sort of jobs that once provided lower-skilled workers with middle-class paychecks.”
Incredible.
