A Dragon in Sheep’s Clothing

From Newsweek’s Jan. 25 edition:
No Rational Exuberance – Op-Ed by George F. Will
Today’s unemployment rate is 10 percent; the underemployment rate—the unemployed, plus those employed part time, plus those discouraged persons who have stopped looking for jobs—is 17.3 percent. Almost 40 percent of the unemployed have been so for seven months or more.
….With prolonged high [...]

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For my family, my (and Tino’s) Christmas wishlist is now online.
Wishlist

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One of those viral things you’re supposed to answer and send to your friends.
Have you ever…
Been arrested?
No.
Held a snake?
Yes.
Been suspended from school?
No.
Sang karaoke?
No. Almost, but they didn’t have the Indigo Girls song I wanted.
Done something you told yourself you wouldn’t do?
Of course!
Laughed until you started crying?
Absolutely. Until I peed too.
Caught a snowflake on [...]

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For my Wisconsin peeps:
Kinnikinic \Kin`ni*ki*nic”\, n. [Native American, literally, a mixture.]
Prepared leaves or bark of certain plants; — used by Native Americans of the Northwest for smoking, either mixed with tobacco or as a substitute for it. Also, a plant so used, as the osier cornel (Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi). [Spelled also [...]

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