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I know that we like to think of ourselves as the "World Savior" (helped in no small part, I'm sure, by certain religious leanings of the US that will go un-named). And maybe I'm being short-sighted--I certainly have never claimed to be an expert on things like Foreign Relations or Economics. But whenever I see that the US is giving money to other ( Read more... )

Yesterday I began my temp job that Hermes helped me get. It's basically just data entry, and it's interesting because I've had dreams of getting a data entry job as my next job (although, to be fair, I've had a LOT of dreams about different positions in the over 4 months since my lay-off, but most of them have been doing a previous job in some ( Read more... )

"Capitalism needs an enema."