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The links are also for my reference, I want to get back to them and review them. But now I must hit the gym.

Economy related news:

Paul Krugman's dismal prognosis.
According to Alan Greenspan: "I wish I could say the household survey were the more accurate. Everything we've looked at suggests that it's the payroll data which are the series which you have to follow." You may have heard that the establishment survey doesn't count jobs created by new businesses; not so. The bureau knows what it's doing — conservative commentators are raising objections only because they don't like the facts.


Salon's take on the jobs issue, which piggy backs onto Krugman's article.
Truth: The conditions for this disaster were set by the tech debacle, by the enormous and unsustainable accumulation of household debt, by the decline in our trade competitiveness and trade balance (under the "high dollar policy"), and by the unsustainability of regressive and opportunistic state and local tax structures. Not since the 1920s had growth been so dependent on speculative investment and mortgage finance. Not in history has our trade position been so weak.

The failure of Bush and his economists does not lie in faking a prediction. It lies in failing to understand what the underlying problems are. It lies in failing to propose policies suitable to their cure. It lies in the wanton pursuit of a strategy of tax cuts for the long term aimed at the political, not economic, objective of exempting plutocrats and their fortunes from federal tax. In lies in the rush into military adventures -- from missile defense to Iraq -- that achieve little, waste vast resources and make a proper jobs-and-security policy even more difficult down the road. Most of all, it lies in failing to care, one way or another, what might happen.

On the counterpoint side: Donald Luskin


In other news: A soldier turns himself in to the military after refusing to return to duty, identifying himself as a conscientious objector. Interest that it took him 6 months to turn himself in since I was supposed to report for duty.

And which is it: Al-Qaeda, or Al-Qaida? Does it even matter? Yet I see different news sources spell it differently. War on Terror, hell! We need a War on Error!

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I just finished watching season 3 of Buffy.

Boy. When I think of all the boring commencement speeches I've sat through, I could only have been so lucky to have the speaker turn into a big serpentine demon. That just ruled. Way to go Buffy and the Sunnydale class of '99!