Time for the weekend, time for poliPicks. There is really nothing better than an interesting, long magazine article that is good enough to make into your weekend schedule of laziness. For those who weren’t able to pick up and save such an article for you weekend brunches, you will be pleasantly surprised below. Also, some good ol’ fashioned politickin’, with the usual drama, melodrama, and comedy (it’s funny ‘cuz it’s true). Enjoy:
- Did she, didn’t she: The Pelosi-torture memo circus continues, and as with any circus, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is a main attraction
- Brooks poops the party: David on Obama’s ambitious agenda: “If he is going to sustain his agenda, if he is going to prevent national insolvency, he has to control health care costs. Health care costs are now the crucial issue of his whole presidency.”
- Your fridge, yourself: GOOD magazine presents an intriguing picture show of the content of various people’s refrigerators. Reading the captions under each one you can’t help but nod in agreement. Ex: The fridge below belongs to a middle-school teacher (probably in Berkeley).
- Are you happy? You sure about that?: Joshua Wolf Shenk, the author of one of the best books I’ve read recently, Lincoln’s Melancholy, writes about a massive, lifelong study of a group of Harvard grads from the 1940’s and they way they lived. Some are tragic, some are hopeful (one is a former US prez), but all of them provide deep insights into what makes us happy.
- Layoffs are bad. Layoffs and no one hiring is worse: Consider this pair of graphs from the Economix blog on The NYT. The first graph shows the number of people being hired by companies each December of the last 8 years. The second graph shows the number of people being laid off each December of the last 8 years. Hiring keeps plummeting while layoffs keep rising. This means fiercer competition for jobs and more time spent watching The View:
New hires
Layoffs
- In case you can’t get enough Obama pics: Check out TIME.com’s White House photo blog.
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