I’ve seen a lot of airports lately. As a matter of fact I’m currently in another, waiting to board the red eyed monster maker. I miss my bed, but it’s not all bad. No, not at all. Airports give me time to contemplate death, dying, and funerals. By that I …
The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class Circa 2007
via Balloon Juice Professor Warren, in her capacity as a specialist in bankruptcy law, uses actual facts & statistics to back up her Cassandra predictions. Despite the Burkean vapors of Brooks & Doubthat, she pins the decline of the American middle class not to our moral decay and piggish consumerist …
Labor Day
Labor Day, according to Wikipedia a Federal Holiday now mainly celebrated as the end of summer. Though typically no one wants summer to end, this summer’s wretchedness has many applauding its passing. Here’s to hoping the autumn air blows off the stink of the summer of 2011. I’ll be traveling …
