Archive for July, 2013

While you’re waiting for the bus

Stuff worth reading Sky Deutschland to broadcast adverts directly into train passengers’ heads – Telegraph DO NOT LIKE No, manufacturing jobs won’t revive the economy Now that we’ve all but destroyed unions, it’s time to bring those manufacturing jobs back! The real problem with gen y There are no real jobs I was a Manic Pixie Dream Girl It […]

It has been worse

On May 18th, I stopped taking a drug that (I think) was making my migraines worse. June was a better month than any since I began the drug, but I’m still not back to the level I was in the fall when I began trying preventative drugs for my migraines. So far, July isn’t looking […]

What you really mean to your employer

“You go out and buy a bag of screws, you’re confident they’re all going to work with very little exceptions,” he said. “People on the other hand… they are all over the map.” via No, manufacturing jobs won’t revive the economy – Salon.com.

Double bind

Young women in traditional colleges are responding to the need to be better educated than their male counterparts, even if that means working for less money. The women I interview are earning the most expensive, most contested of all college credentials not to be competitive but to survive. via Gender, Race, And Going To Class: […]

Don’t blame expensive end of life care on atheists

Not talking about death only makes it more lonely and frightening | Giles Fraser | Comment is free | The Guardian. People are trying to have better conversations about death rather than resorting to platitudes or avoidance. This is good. But Fraser is a bit misleading when he talks about cost as motivation for these […]