October, 2016 archive
Nothing To Do, Nowhere To Go 0
Still not bad.
(snip)
The four-week average of claims, a less-volatile measure than the weekly figure, increased to 253,000 from 252,000 in the prior week.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits dropped by 15,000 to 2.04 million in the week ended Oct. 15. The unemployment rate among people eligible for benefits held at 1.5 percent. These data are reported with a one-week lag.
The really big news, left implicit but unstated in Bloomberg’s story, is that Bloomberg’s experts got it right. Today’s the day I buy that lottery ticket!
The ABCs of Trump: “Always Be Closing” 0
Josh Marshall suggests that Donald Trump is approaching the campaign as if it were a business deal–no, not the “both sides benefit” sort of deal, but, rather, the “but wait! there’s more” TV huckster sort of deal. A snippet (emphasis in the original):
That style of selling is all about creating intense desire and need but also an acute fear of loss, collapsing the time in which a decision can be made. When he’s trying to close, that kind of salesperson will throw everything into the mix, make the wildest, often nonsensical claims, to up the pressure and get the mark to ‘yes’. You hear this again and again with Trump, especially in recent weeks. This is the last election. This is your last chance. The country won’t exist anymore if we lose. . . . The ‘last chance’ is almost always part of the close
Much more at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Friends share politeness:
Ahern said that after his friend placed the gun onto his bed, Ahern picked up the weapon by the trigger and it discharged, which startled both of them. Ahern told police he then drove his wounded friend to the hospital.
They never think the gun is loaded and they are always too caught up in ammosexual heat to check.
Oedifice Complex 0
The people need bread, and the leaders want circuses.
Signs of the Times 0
A suburban mom–she probably would have been called a “soccer mom” 20 years ago–explains how she ended up in the dock for stealing Trump signs.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Nothing is as polite as a little stolen politeness.
Bombe de Terre 0
When a potato is a pineapple:
She carried on her cooking as normal and it was only when her husband came home and ran the “rock” under the tap that they discovered it was in fact a grenade from 1917.
The Republican Gut-Out-the-Vote Effort 0
They aren’t even trying to pretend it’s about anything other than partisan advantage any more.
Clowns to the Left of Me, Clowns to the Right of Me, Clowns in Authority 0
Since Monday, people have had to put their clown act on hold and will not be able to dress as one until after Halloween, on Nov. 1.
The stupid, it burns.
Via Harry Shearer.
