Alabama’s unemployment rate fell to 8.1% in December. It was 8.7% one month earlier. In September, it was 9.8%. Most of Alabama’s illegal immigration law—widely regarded as the toughest in the country—went into effect on September 29. It seems “jobs Americans won’t do” might be a rather more diaphanous notion than any of the phrase’s … Read more
It appears very much as if several soldiers recently urinated on some bodies, and video-recorded themselves doing so. It also appears very much as if this occurred in Afghanistan, these soldiers are U.S. Marines, and the bodies are Taliban. “It was inhuman and despicable, an unforgivable act,” said Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi. (Good to … Read more
I was a total baby about my four-day week because I was very excessively resentful about my Christmas vacation ending, and yes, I have guiltily considered the ridiculositude of such an emotion when so many would love to have my situation to resent. In any case, I promptly mentally face-planted when I got home. So, … Read more